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Each November Cannon Beach’s art community gathers to collectively celebrate diverse talents during this popular festival of the arts.

Galleries, shops, hotels and restaurants host a variety of writers, singers, composers, painters, sculptors and more. The unique coastal beauty of this region has inspired creativity for many decades, making Cannon Beach one of The Best Art Towns in America.

Transform your coastal experience into a festival of creativity filled with music, theater, poetry and art.

Bold colors, geometric patterns, and botanical profiles capture the eye in Erik Abel’s artwork. Inspired by his love of the ocean, surfing and travel, his work articulates the spirit of the water and awe of nature. His roots as a California surfer intermingle with his experiences traveling to the South Pacific and Central America, imparting an organic, tribal style to his subjects and compositions. Upon a closer look, Abel’s graphic imagery unfolds to tell the story of his paintings. Accents peak through unexpectedly revealing the layers of color Abel cloaks in each piece while loose strokes of colored pencil and marker create dimension. Erik currently lives in Seaside, Oregon.

Josh Keyes

Josh Keyes’ most recent paintings embody the theme of natural entropy, destruction, and restoration. The imagery in these paintings illustrates a post-human world, an environment reclaimed by nature. At first glance, the imagery calls to mind the contemporary fixation and anxiety surrounding the ever-growing impact the human presence has in relation to environmental change. The cause or event leading to the absence of humans is left to the viewer’s imagination; Josh’s focus is on the remaining landscape.

Brin Levinson

In the war between man and the natural world, it would appear, judging from his unpeopled cityscapes, nature has won. Levinson’s worlds – washed in dour grays, ochre, and sepia brown – suggest the landscape before us is already becoming a relic. The brightest colors, the occasional burst of blue sky that breaks out from behind cloud-crowded sky, the flash of red graffiti on a rhino, illuminate the scene. Currently living in Portland, Oregon, you can see the influence Portland’s industrial areas and older architecture have had on Levinson. His “backyard” has become the subject of his art. A “new place” has emerged in his work based on the collision of urban landscapes and the natural world – in which the deer and the zebra roam, while wildebeests graze in the city’s Chinatown, and beneath an underpass in a switching yard, a tagged walrus, big as a train car, appears to rest his weary flippers.

Hollywood Indian

Hollywood Indian’s artwork is primarily about the evolution of humankind as an animal and our impact on the natural world, specifically in regard to all other sentient beings. The growing movement towards social justice, peace, and a truer embodiment of community in Western culture is undoubtedly linked to how we treat the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, regardless of species. He continues to be inspired by the way in which animals exist autonomously, with behaviors driven almost entirely by necessity and survival. They flourish in a capacity above greed, materialism, or vanity and do so without ever exhausting their resources. Hollywood Indian is deeply unsettled by the incongruence of our two worlds. His artwork explores color, texture, and surface manipulation in an attempt to achieve somewhat uncalculated results that cannot be drawn or painted by hand. This is an allusion to the beauty of nature, which despite humankind’s endless attempts, can never be replicated nor restored once it is destroyed. The animals and symbols rendered within these surfaces serve as reminders that we still have much to learn from our fellow inhabitants.

Nicole Gustafsson

Nicole works as a full time illustrator specializing in traditional media paintings featuring everything from woodland characters and environments to pop culture based projects. She uses a stunning color palette to capture fantastical places. Her interest in wildlife and trees grew into a life-long passion of the natural world and continues to be a theme in her artwork.

Dan Hiller

Dan Hillier makes collages and ink drawings using a mixture of found imagery and his own imaginings. His work is born out of a passion for line work and collage, a love of archaic imagery and an urge to produce pictures that provoke humour, wonder and a certain subconscious recognition in the viewer. Nearly all of his work is figurative and comprises totemic or iconographical combinations of human, animal, plant and mineral forms. The subjects are generally set in blank spaces devoid of context. The characters in his pictures display an emblematic composite of human and non-human attributes, drawing on, but rarely literally depicting, ancient mythological beings, Victorian freak-shows, dream imagery, religious iconography and subconscious inspiration, whilst promoting a sense of transformation, repression, transcendence and evolution.

Teagan White

Teagan is a freelance illustrator specializing in intricate drawings of flora and fauna, playful watercolors of animal characters, and illustrated typography. She is very interested in nature’s subtle, gentle reciprocity and wild, tragic discord, and combines this inspiration with nostalgic colors, decorative arrangements of organic forms and meticulous detail. Her projects range from advertising and editorial to children’s books, greeting cards and textiles.

Blaine Fontana

Blaine currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Imbuing his vision with the divine symbolism of religious myths, worldly folklore and current social dynamics, his works contain a kind of shamanic exploration of meaning that recognizes the totemic quality and power of the image. Fontana’s work displays a virtuosic understanding of sign & simulacra and their role within our contemporary visual culture. Straddling the physical and metaphysical, organic and architectural, painterly and graphic sensibilities, Blaine fuses multiple visual strategies to forge an aesthetic language entirely of his own making.

David does every bit of the work himself in creating his limited edition bronze sculptures in his Halfway, Oregon backyard studio and foundry. His subject matter comes from his simple, rural life style and is honest, deep, and often a bit quirky. He says “Growing up living and working among cattle ranchers, art was not really the kind of thing that one should take too seriously. So, initially, I tried to focus my creative energy on functional objects, such that I would be considered useful. But time would inevitably lead me to make things that had no purpose whatsoever.”

Linda Wilder

Linda grew up as an “air force brat” traveling extensively across Canada, and finally settling in Alberta. Her creative ability was readily evident as a child and eventually was able to follow her destiny. She says all of her landscapes are inspired in some way by the environment surrounding her…a mountain, waterfall or abstract shape. The simplest things capture her attention…the way light bounces off the water and rocks in a stream, the contrast of snow against the warm underbrush, creating abstract form…it all sparks an emotional cord.

Jim Eppler

Jim brings the power, beauty, harshness and magnetic attraction of nature to both his paintings and bronzes. He creates from the experience of his lifelong enchantment with wildlife and his innate gift for the use of color and form. A seasoned artist who readily admits a romance with “the play of light and shadow, the way paint builds on canvas,” he is equally captivated by gestures and textures that lend themselves to the three-dimensional aspect of bronze. Bringing his skill as a colorist to his sculpture, Eppler hand-finishes each bronze in his limited editions.

Robert Rogers

Robert is a native Texan whose work has been inspired by Native American art, Oriental art, and European art – along with 40 years of studies in scouting and Indian Lore. He studied at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and has been greatly influenced by his visits to the great art Meccas of Europe and especially by the art of Gustave Klimt. For more than 27 years, Robert has created fine jewelry as an art and as an expression of love for the craft. His work reflects the full expression of archetypes in Native American culture as depicted in petroglyphs and pictographs in ancient North American sites, blended with mystical spiritual symbols, Braille and other icons.

Carol Gold

Carol grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts and studied art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Boston University School of Fine Arts, MA; and the Museum School in Boston. Before she embarked on a sculpture career, however, she spent 14 years raising her family. In 1977 she resumed her art career in earnest, enrolling at the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA, to study bronze casting. Encouraged by her results with the medium, she built her own foundry in Northern California and has been operating it ever since. She shapes her figures and animals from wax instead of clay because she likes the way it can be manipulated to convey emotion and mood. “Wax enables me to sketch-in my figures rapidly,” she says. “It has a lightness to it that I like.” Her work is characterized by rich patinas in colors that range from warm tones of gold and copper to various shades of turquoise.

Joshua Tobey

The child of artists, Joshua grew up in a household where nature was as much a part of life as art…in fact so much so that perhaps one would not exist without the other. While in college in Colorado, he explored the mountains and rivers and finally decided to become a bronze sculptor. Today his subject matter is a combination of figurative studies combined with wildlife. He says it is because as apart as man is from nature, it is only in nature that he feels as if he is part of something bigger than himself.

Debra Carnes, a self-taught basket artist, has been handcrafting woven works of art for more than 30 years. Her pieces have been displayed in juried shows and galleries in Michigan, Florida, and Oregon. Her baskets and sculptures are currently inspired by a concern for sustainability in art making. Carnes won the Steve McLeod Earth Day Award two years in a row for creating pieces from recycled marine debris.

Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson’s love of nature and background in plein air is evident in his beautiful and intricate watercolors. Johnson developed the soft washes of the Japanese tradition, as well as the refined line work of the Persian miniature. Johnson’s love of nature, refreshed by frequent trips and hikes, is evident in his work, but its mood, often portrayed by impending weather, dominates the objects in the landscape. There are subtle references to change in the clouds and stronger references to death and loneliness in the leafless trees of his latest work, yet the mood is never hopeless, but lets us know that the next season, bringing the tiny leaves of spring, is just beyond and approaching.

Donna Sakamoto Crispin

Eugene weaver and basketmaker Donna Sakamoto Crispin isn’t one to expound on the depth of meaning in each piece of her vastly diverse body of work. Rather, she is one of those rare, refreshing artists who allows a work of art to speak for itself – and often, for her. Ms. Crispin’s art form utilizes traditional Japanese and Native American techniques passed down from generation to generation for hundreds, even thousands of years. She believes her work as artist and teacher is fundamental to preserving this craft which, outside of the realm of art, is largely obsolete.

Water related images have intrigued Kathy since her student days at Art Center College of Design. Her current work is a combination of digital photography and encaustic techniques. On calm days, you may find her in a kayak on a NW waterway photographing the ever-changing surfaces around her, capturing what is reflected in, what floats upon, and what lies beneath the surface. Back in the studio she digitally edits the photos and prints them on watercolor paper. For texture and translucency she then fuses layers of melted beeswax to each print, along with oil pastels, oil paint, alcohol inks and mica powder. Her delight is in experimenting with the blending of new and traditional. The joy is in paying attention.

Deb Steele

Deb Steele is a local artist from Tualatin, Oregon. Each piece of her jewelry is handcrafted in fine silver with accents of 24k gold, pearls, gemstones and glass. She strives to balance creativity with attention to detail. Her designs reflect the things she loves, often taking you into the garden, to the Oceanside or travel destinations. There is a special connection to the pieces that tells a story of life experiences.

Michael Orwick

His skill as a landscape artist creates compelling views of our world that move beyond time and place – places as mysterious as Oregon’s craggy coast, as unpredictable as a glacial view of Mount Hood, or as serene as an Oregon waterfall. His work can conjure up thoughts of Remington in his most enamored moments with the majestic west, or the dance of an impressionist on a pond or the snow.

Anton Pavlenko

A Ukrainian-born painter, he has always been drawn to creating imagery. His earliest memories are of drawing Russian cartoon characters before he immigrated to the United States with his family as a toddler. Encouraged by his father, he persisted in educating himself about art and painting, and today remains largely self-taught and deeply inspired by the natural world.

Jim’s life-forming fascination with glass began as a five-year experiment. Today, he has pieces in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries. And during Stormy Weather you’ll be able to see the first examples of his newest direction. Multiple firings of cast and fused glass will play with other materials, including wood and possibly clay. The idea is to produce work that evokes light and frozen motion. Over the next decade he expects Icefire’s sculpture to express ideas relating to transference, rhythmic and incremental repetition, bridging concepts and coherent light.

Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne’s journey into the world of glass began with a dream where she was suspended in a pillar of fire. Turning in the flames she found herself dancing. That dancing continues as she continues to learn the ways of glass, creating with it as her partner and bringing forth objects reminiscent more of water than fire: cool, smooth forms that reflect light as a pond does, sculptures that bend the light as a ripple does, calm creations that transmit light like the stillest pool.

Pam Juett

Pam Juett fell in love with hot glass while watching Bill and Sally Worcester work their magic at their studio in Cannon Beach during the late seventies. For the next six years, she immersed herself in the study of glass and art at the Pearl Wright Gallery in Manning, Oregon; at the Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington; and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Portland, Oregon. In 2008, she found a way to work with glass on a small scale at her home. Classes in flame-worked glass at Bullseye Glass and Aquilla School in Portland led her to begin making beads. Today, she continues to develop her beads and her jewelry, producing necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.

Mark Gordon

Mark began blowing glass in 2003. His first experience with the medium was at Icefire and he now lives and works in Bend, Oregon. His current body of work is focused on blending colors and balancing them with individual forms. The challenge of combining colors in different ways, and working with a hot and fluid medium, keeps every day of working with glass new and exciting. He says, “Jim Kingwell and Suzanne Kindland were my first mentors in glass. I never imagined what glass had in store for me. It has shaped my life over the last fourteen years, and created a sense of accomplishment and pride in myself and the work I create.” He currently works with Michelle Kaptur, another great friend and mentor. He studied at Firehouse Glass from 2003 to 2005, Eugene Glass School with Karen Willenbrink in 2006, The Pilchuck Glass School under Richard Royal in August of 2012 and Davide Salvadore and Shelley Muzylowski Allen in July 2016. Most recently he participated in a workshop on goblets at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle under Boyd Sugiki in July of 2017.

Stirling is represented by White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach, but will be conducting a workshop during Stormy Weather at Imprint Gallery. Most of his subject matter is based on the coastal region of Oregon and the high desert, east of the Cascades. As he spends more time revisiting these particular places, he becomes more enamored with their complex natural history, and the rich visual experience accompanying them. In consideration for new images, he is searching for a story in the landscape that he can accentuate through visual means. Signs of geological activity, or indications of how weather has shaped the land are examples of what fascinates him as an observer. The inherently slow process of relief printing and monotype forces him to be methodical as he builds up each printed layer. Many of these prints are made over weeks, sometimes months at a time, making his process somewhat self-reflective. Like reading a journal from the past, his work is a record of his present-day focus and admiration of the world he occupies.

Sharon Greenwood

Sharon Greenwood was introduced to clay while studying to become a graphic designer. The way it felt, how it took shape in her hands, even the smell was intoxicating. She took every class she could until she graduated. And then, for the next 15 years, she put clay away to focus on her career in advertising. In 2010, She took a two-month-long sabbatical from her career to explore her creative ambitions. She enrolled in a pottery class and fell in love with clay all over again. When the class ended, she quit her job and turned her garage into a studio. For the past several years she has continued to hone her craft and experiment. This is how she learned that she loved to carve. She says, “My work is inspired by the tranquility of the Oregon coast as well as the cheerfulness of my garden.”

Jeffrey began his painting career over 40 years ago as a resident of Cannon Beach. Though primarily self-taught, he did study under three Northwest Watercolorists in the early 70’s. Known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, Jeffrey controls the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings. Recently Jeff also returned to painting in oil as well. He is rarely found far from the ocean’s edge, the source of his inspiration. His deep love for the area is clearly seen in his original paintings and prints.

Eduard was born in Donetsk, Ukraine and in 1992 immigrated to Canada, where he now lives in Wasaga Beach, Ontario. He runs a home-based art studio where he creates his own art and instructs aspiring artists of all ages. He holds a Degree of Arts from the University of Lvov in the Ukraine and an Illustrator Diploma from Sheridan College in Canada. He is a diverse, original and well-respected artist whose thought inspiring works convey a variety of themes drawn from his own life experiences, philosophy as well as the world and people who surround him.

David Wright

David is well known for his innovative freeform glass wave sculptures. He studied at the Pilchuck Glass School, founded by Master Glassblower Dale Chihuly. Studying under Therman Statom, it was here that his work with blown glass water fountains developed into an expression of water in the sculpted art form. He endeavors to create, by hand, a glass sculpture that embodies the essence of movement in water…each distinctly unique and individually created in his Seattle studio.

Sarah Goodnough

Sarah’s work celebrates life. Her artistic style is expressive, using vibrant color, strong composition, and layered texture. She paints abstract viewscapes, pulling real life scenes into redefined realities of wonder and brilliance, creating in a variety of mediums; painting in oils, acrylics and watercolor. She also works with pastels, blockprints, mosaics and photography. By playing with composition and texture, she produces vibrant and unique work that is sensitive to mood and emotion.

Georgia’s bronze sculptures define many NW public spaces, including “Rachel the Pike Place Pig” in Seattle’s Pike Place Market and 25 sculptures surrounding Pioneer Courthouse in downtown Portland. Gerber won the 2010 Cannon Beach public choice award for Sculpture Without Walls with her “Tufted Puffins”. She typically works on two to three public installation commissions at one time using the traditional lost wax casting technique.

Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

Ann has been having a life long affair with clay. In harmony with her very practical nature she created colorful functional ware and architectural accents for over 25 years. But one day she gave herself permission to have fun. She went to her studio in 2004 and created her first figure in clay simply for the joy of working in a material she knew so well. In 2006, urged by friends, she cast the first piece in bronze. Each new sculpture became a joy to her. She soon recognized that things that mattered to her crept into her work, stories that reflected human nature surrounded by our natural world. And though in the beginning she thought this work had no utility but to bring back to her the joy of process, she can now see that the stories the pieces tell are their utility.

Ivan McLean

He is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. His work is also well known in California where he has just installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from ten sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

Christopher has been represented by galleries from New York to Washington State, and has developed a signature style with emphasis on deconstructing images to their most important lines and organic forms. He strives to capture energetic movement, intense emotion and suggestive shapes essential to communicate his ideas in paint.

Drea Rose Frost

Drea discovered a mystic sense of beauty through her passion for surfing and her visceral attraction to the ocean. Exploring her relationship with the natural world through her art, she draws from her experiences in and around the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest. She usually begins her artistic process with impressions from nature. Seduced by the complexities of water and the repetition of patterns and geometric forms in the ocean or surrounding areas, she seeks to create a visual representation of these elements. She has discovered a sense of awe and wonder while being immersed in the sea; and these are moments that have illuminated her from within and the weight of these ineffable and transcendental experiences drives her to find a language through art in which to articulate and share temporal moments.

Helga Winter

Helga Winter has made something new, unfamiliar and possibly shocking out of something very familiar to us. Taking a book full of words she has turned it inside out, deconstructing it, but at the same time reconstructing, relearning and rethinking. Tearing, ripping, coloring, waxing, rolling, arranging and gluing the pages is practice. Something she does over and over to acquire a certain knowledge of patience, quietude, peacefulness and a gathering of information from the inside. She invites you to view the sculpture from all angles, to stay open-minded to learn about both sides of the story and know that it can always be changed.

Melanie Brauner

Melanie is a hand papermaker and metalsmith, living and working in Shoreline, Washington. Her paper sculpture and VERSO line of jewelry are made from hand-fabricated metal forms cast with a paper skin. The casting process starts with finely beaten abaca paper fibers suspended in water. The sculptural metal forms are dipped into this pulp, and the fibers cling to the metal and shrink as they dry. A tight, translucent paper skin is built up over successive dips. The concept is the same as making a sheet of handmade paper, but around a three-dimensional form, and by building up thin layers, over the course of several days. The paper-skinned forms are hand-dyed, and coated in sealer.

With a focus on Northwest wines and regional cuisine, the Savor Cannon Beach festival offers a four-day lineup of wine, culinary and arts events March 8-11, 2018, in one of the Pacific Northwests most beautiful vacation destinations. Festival events focus on specific themes that showcase the bounty of Northwest wine and cuisine while restaurants, galleries and shops add a weekend full of tastings, special dinners and cultural events. The festival kicks off with the Thursday Night Throwdown, where participants taste twelve select wines including two of each varietal, one from Oregon and one from Washington, then vote on their favorites to determine which state reigns supreme. Other events include the Battle of the Blends featuring four red and four white wine blends from the Northwest. The evening also includes the Battle of Bites, showcasing appetizers by local chefs who compete for Best Bite. Saturday of the festival is the Savor Cannon Beach Wine Walk featuring approximately 40 Northwest wineries pouring tastings at Cannon Beach art galleries, restaurants and retail shops, all within easy walking distance in this compact beach community. Many Cannon Beach businesses also participate in a Tasting Tour featuring free or low cost tastings ranging from chocolates and olive oils to specialty salts and locally-made brews and spirits.

The members of the Cannon Beach Gallery Group invite you to play along the shores of Cannon Beach and in the varied and beautiful galleries of our town. Nestled between the wild ocean and the coastal mountains Cannon Beach offers art and craft ranging from the playful to the sublime. On May 4, 5 & 6, each gallery will spotlight new work by their chosen artists. Unveilings, demos and receptions take place all weekend long, making this event an unparalleled experience for the art lover.

Cannon Beach has not only been named “One of the Best Art Towns in America,” but National Geographic has also listed it as “One of the Most Beautiful Places in the World.” So…what more could you ask for if you’re a plein air artist? That’s why they continue to come from around the world to capture the unique elements of this landscape “in the open air”. To celebrate this challenging artistic style and the work of the artists, the Cannon Beach Gallery Group is presenting the 9th Annual Plein Air & More festival. Scheduled for June 23-25, the event will feature nearly 50 artists creating art on location throughout the town and on the beach Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Last year we added a new feature to the festival that made it easier for visitors to watch the participating artists at work. On Saturday afternoon they all came together for two hours in an “Artists’ Swarm” right in the center of town. Visitors truly enjoyed being able to see them all creating in one place. This was so popular that we are continuing it this year. Also returning will be the “Creative Play Space” where children of all ages can explore their own artistic talents. Our stilt walker will also be back, along with live music, and the raku firing on the beach Saturday evening. This festival is unlike any other in the country, in that it goes beyond the typical “Plein Air” event, by including not only those working in oil, pastels, and watercolor. The “and more” component attracts virtually every other art form…bronze sculpture and stone carving, metal working, jewelry, woodworking, ceramics and fused or blown glass. We hope you’ll join us. This event just keeps getting better and better each year.

Leading up to the weekend will be four workshops conducted by nationally recognized artists Michael Orwick, Anton Pavlenko, Mike Rangner and Hazel Schlesinger. Come and paint for a few days before the festival, then plan to stay over for all the fun.

2017 Plein Air and More Gallery Listings!

Nicole works as a full time illustrator specializing in traditional media paintings featuring everything from woodland characters and environments to pop culture based projects. She uses a stunning color palette to capture fantastical places portrayed. Her interest in wildlife and trees grew into a life-long passion related to the natural world, and continues to be a theme in her artwork.

Dan was born in China, in the province of Canton. He immigrated with his parents to the U.S. in 1984 and enrolled at San Francisco City College to study graphic design and illustration at Academy of Art University. Since then, Dan’s professional career has focused full time on nature and wildlife art in both paintings and sculptures. His experience with the eastern and western disciplines of art has provided the inspiration for the extremely pleasing and dramatic style he has developed. Whether the media is oil, pastel, watercolor or sculpture, each piece Dan creates is an exquisite and masterful expression of line, color, light and energy which is truly his own. His art is a marriage of the finest qualities of eastern and western art style and technique.

“Fall on the River” by Pamela Claflin

Pamela Claflin

Pamela has a deep love and respect for nature…especially what is found in the Northwest to the Southwest. In her paintings she wants to transfer to the viewers the reason for capturing that particular scene…be it the quality of light, color, textures, a water source in an unusual area, or the absolute beauty of a grand scene. Occasionally she enjoys capturing a building, a bloom or animal, or an etched-out life style.

“Praise” by Kristina Boardman

Kristina Boardman

Kristina was born in Lancashire, England and came to Canada amid Centennial celebrations in 1967, spending several years in Alberta before settling in Victoria. Her paintings are infused with the colors and tones from the multitude of stones found along the beaches of Canada’s west coast, and the painting possibilities are endless. Her work is created from within rather than from a still life construction or photograph, with her process mimicking the reaction of sand and water on stones in nature as they settle into place. In the finished painting, the eye travels along the crevices created by the shadows, just as water would flow around the stones on the beach.

Christopher Perry began showing his paintings in 1983. He studied fine arts at Marylhurst University, with an emphasis on print making. Today, he creates in two separate mediums, oil painting and kiln-cast glass. The two mediums continually influence each other. He also contrasts light and dark in his abstract landscapes, paying particular attention to atmosphere. Having won many awards and had his work appear in several television series, he currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Portland Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Council.

“Skylight” by J. Scott Wilson

J. Scott Wilson

He is constantly extending his inspired feelings through his media with each painting. His images develop for the day he lives. Direction of paint on surface as well as the entrance and the exit of imagery are a few of his present concerns. The result is a fantastic freedom of expression. This accomplished painter of over forty years has earned honors with his paintings by art critics with over two hundred Best of Shows in prestigious art events in the USA over his career. His paintings reflect his love for classical music through the movement and energy in each painting. He strives to challenge the viewers’ eye and mind with innovative images he creates with use of color, line and texture. The end result is a quality painting that holds the interest of the viewer for a lifetime.

“Late p.m. F35, Iceland” by Sidonie Caron

Sidonie Caron

Berlin born, London raised artist Sidonie paints within a wide range of themes and subjects. Her work includes landscapes, seascapes and figurative images, bridges and walls, industrial and abstract compositions, and Asian and Judaica themes. Her life and experiences have taught her–and she will say she was more influenced by her surroundings than from her classical training– to look for the subtle variations in things. Her work is never directly representational. She is much more interested in leaving an impression that has its basis in her experiments and explorations. Her perspective suggests that with a a bit of distance, a greater fullness of lived experiences comes into focus.

Michael’s skill as a landscape artist creates compelling views of our world that move beyond time and place – places as mysterious as Oregon’s craggy coast, as unpredictable as a glacial view of Mount Hood, or as serene as an Oregon waterfall. His work can conjure up thoughts of Remington in his most enamored moments with the majestic west, or the dance of an impressionist on a pond or the snow.

“Summer Colors” by Anton Pavlenko

Anton Pavlenko

Anton Pavlenko is a Ukrainian-born painter who has always been drawn to creating imagery. His earliest memories are of drawing Russian cartoon characters before he immigrated to the United States with his family as a toddler. Encouraged by his father, he persisted in educating himself about art and painting, and today remains largely self-taught and deeply inspired by the natural world.

Untitled by JoAnne Shellan

Joanne Shellan

This Seattle artist began her career with watercolor and in just two years found success in galleries, solo shows and commissions, started winning awards and attained her signature membership in the Northwest Watercolor Society. But the frustration she was feeling with that medium told her that something was still missing. So, after happening on a demonstration of ala prima oil painting, she gave away her watercolors and bought oils. “The dense pigment and rich texture of oils truly express the art that has always been inside me.” Today, she paints in oils and acrylics and is known for her strong design and rich color.

What began as a five-year experiment evolved into a life-forming fascination with glass for Jim, who has been playing with fire for more than 40 years. His chemistry teacher’s observations about reality inspired him to enroll in art classes, so it is fitting that melting glass requires a grounding in both chemistry and physics. His Icefire Glassworks logo incorporates the alchemical symbols for Earth, Air, Fire and Water, honoring the obvious linkage of art and science. From that, beautiful pieces of blown glass emerge that seduce the senses and stimulate the spirit. He will show his latest work from his Embers series.

“Brocade Series” by Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne was not reared to be a glass artist. It was her connection to the dream world that led her to become one at the age of 38. There were always hints, persistent nudges that would not be ignored, from favorite childhood words (horizon, crucible) to a vision of dancing in flames that led her to Cannon Beach and propelled her into the passionate world of soft molten glass. Inspired by the places she has lived, she makes blown glass pieces that express Nature in the tangled patterns of woodlands, the stark horizons of deserts, and the mysteries of deep water. She will be showing the latest work in her Emerald Forest series.

“Petroglyph Vase” by Michelle Kaptur

Michelle Kaptur

Michelle has been blowing glass since 1975. After ten years learning the basics of glass blowing, she moved on to paint for several years. “Painting is where I put together all the composition, color and design stuff that I learned about in school. When I came back to glass I had a much stronger sense of the design choices I wanted to make and why.” She has had her own studio, Glass Dancing, in Bend since 1994, previously having worked with Icefire Glassworks for several years.

Jewelry by Pamela Juett

Pamela JuettPam Juett fell in love with hot glass while watching Bill and Sally Worcester work their magic at their studio in Cannon Beach during the late seventies. For the next six years, she immersed herself in the study of glass and art at the Pearl Wright Gallery in Manning, Oregon; at the Pilchuck School in Stanwood, Washington; and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Portland, Oregon. In 2008, she found a way to work with glass on a small scale at her home. Classes in flame worked glass at Bullseye Glass and Aquilla School in Portland led her to begin making beads. Today, she continues to develop her beads and her jewelry, producing necklaces, bracelets, and earrings.

Angela is a graduate from Oregon State University where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. During her time at OSU she focused in printmaking, where she took on the challenge of learning how to produce full color Intaglio prints. This type of copper plate etching is a multi-step process involving reworking a single plate for each color/layer of the image. In her studies she successfully produced vibrant, whimsical prints and quickly became one of the top printmakers in her graduating class.

Untitled by Lisa Wiser

Lisa Wiser

Lisa draws inspiration from the scenic northwest, travel adventures and reading novels to create watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media paintings. Also an avid photographer, she chronicles her visual inspirations as she records obscure landscapes, architectural details, and other intriguing painting subjects. Pursuits in life drawing and plein air painting confirm that she prefers a direct association with her subjects while working from life both outdoors or in the studio. “The foundation of my work is a keen interest in the concept of structure in both the natural and built environment. My primary interest is capturing landscape scenes that visually articulate my emotional response upon approaching the scene.” Her representational work is characterized by vivid color, great depth of space and attention to detail.”

“Delicate Matters” by Alisa Vernon

Alisa Vernon

Alisa Vernon is Imprint Gallery’s resident printmaker and studio manager. She is a recent graduate from the BFA program at Oregon State University where she studied under Yuji Hiratsuka. Her love for animals and attention to detail are brought forth in her intaglio prints. Since Alisa’s graduation and after a short break over the summer, she has relocated back to her hometown of Astoria. At Imprint Gallery, she hopes to grow both her experience in working for a studio/gallery while simultaneously indulging her love for printmaking.

Untitled by Mark Andres

Mark Andres

Mark is a multimedia artist fluent in drawing, painting, animation and film. Stylistically, his color pallet evokes comparisons to Fauvism, and his work certainly pays some tribute to German Expressionism. The paintings are a product of an experiential process where, in his words, “the mysterious rhythms of the place resonate in my body”. His intention is to communicate the freshness, excitement and brevity of his first glimpse and initial experience of a place. He is keen to qualify that this is no Impressionist manifesto, explaining, “the rhythms I refer to are also abstract and graphic, not just about the fleeting effects of light.”

Jeffrey began his painting career more than 40 years ago in Cannon Beach, and it is from its coastline that he draws his inspiration. Today he is widely known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, controlling the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings. Recently he has returned to painting in oil as well, and is rarely found far from the ocean’s edge. His deep love for the area is clearly seen in his original paintings and prints.

Jewelry artist Sharon Amber creates personal treasures using 14k, 18k, and 22k gold and exotic gems. She is best know for her high fire enameled “miniature paintings”, and her carvings in local gems and beach pebbles. During Plein Air & More, she will reveal work and designs inspired by thousands of miles of travel over the last few months.

“Treasure Box with Golden Beryl” by Steven Amber-Voorheis

Steven Amber-Voorheis

This 20 year old designer began fabricating silver jewelry at the age of 9. His love for origami evolved into origami silver earrings, pendants, and rings with colored gems and pearls. He took a hiatus from jewelry making during his high school years to explore his interest in oceanography, and after two years of college has returned to jewelry design with enthusiasm. One of his designs recently won international recognition as a finalist in the 2017 Saul Bell Jewelry Competition. He currently lives in Independence, Oregon and works in silver, 14 and 18 karat gold, colored stones, and diamonds.

With his imaginative style, bold use of color and dramatic perspective, David brings a fresh new look to the art world. His skill at capturing movement and animation in his art is a direct reflection of his own lifestyle and view of the world. He says, “I feel like I’m putting a puzzle together. I paint the pieces, but even I don’t always know what will be seen in the end.”

Skyscapes & Landscapes in oil reflect the artist’s most memorable and moving experiences with nature. Jeff paints the splendor of our natural world in the Northwest in pursuit of the ethereal & atmospheric light our region is known for.

“Northwest Squall” by Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

“Fremont Bridge” by Ivan McLean Image courtesy of Artslandia

Ivan McLean

Ivan is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. His work is also well known in California where he has installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from ten sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

“Horse” by Tolley Marney

Tolley Marney

This Western sculptor creates powerful equine sculptures using antique wood inlays, steel and a lifetime of traditional blacksmithing skills. Rustic, yet elegant, these works are labor intensive and only ten are sculpted in a year.

“Coyote Woman” by Cristina Acosta

Cristina Acosta

Cristina’s lifelong love of birds, bears and horses is often depicted in a contemporary, yet folk art manner that is truly distinctive. Her “Memoir” paintings are influenced by her Spanish heritage and family history. She has created works in many media all of her life…murals, illustrations and a best selling book. This “Coyote Woman” painting is of her grandmother in her Native American dress.

This husband and wife team has collaborated in clay for more than 30 years, working fulltime at their rustic home studio in the Cascades. They have worked almost solely in raku since the 70′s, and are known for large classical forms and intricate surface designs. A unique aspect of their pottery is the focus on the native environment … the plants, geology, and wildlife that are reflected in the themes and materials used in their work, like the heron urns, leaf imprint pots and landscape triptychs. During the weekend, they will be doing a raku firing on the beach at Sunset.

“Reeds on Edge” by Gretha Lindwood

Gretha Lindwood

Gretha’s paintings are best described as “crisp, refreshing, and vivid.” Vibrant color and strong design are hallmarks of her work developed during a 30-year career as an illustrator and graphic designer. Using soft pastel sticks, recompressed powdered pigments from the earth, she makes her marks on artist grade sandpaper to express the effects of light and atmosphere as she paints the landscape en plein air.Recent awards for her work include “Best Pastel” at the 2013 Pacific Northwest Plein Air Competition. She has also won recognition for her work at shows in Laguna, Carmel, and Los Gatos.

“Charlie Noble” by Robert Schlegel

Robert Schlegel

Robert is a professional artist from Banks, Oregon. He began exhibiting pen and ink drawings in 1973 and has had work included in the Artists of Oregon Show at the Portland Art Museum. Most recently, his work has been included in several juried shows.

Untitled by Bev Drew Kindley

Bev Drew Kindley

This Oregon artist often paints impressionistic landscapes “en plein air” or based on site experience, memories, sketches and photos. Searching for the brightness and joy in every season, inspired by the light and energy she finds in nature, she experiments to transform the excitement she feels into colors, shapes, movement and brushstrokes. Working to communicate what she discovers keeps her always exploring places, mediums and methods.

Untitled Horse Head by Josh Henrie

Josh Henrie

Josh was raised in the northwest corner of Washington where the coast is rugged, calm, and angry, with rays of light that are ever changing. His stone sculptures are deeply influenced by all these elements of nature, moving him to push the texture and polished stone until he brings its story to the surface.

“Summer Alley” by Brooke Borchering

Brooke Borchering

Brooke is dedicated to an ongoing inquiry of building the landscape through paint. Growing up painting palm trees of southern California, she moved to Oregon which inspired her to take an easel outside for the first time in 2009. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 2010, but is mostly self taught by observing/ responding to nature. With a practice of both plein air and studio painting she now works as a full time artist in Seattle WA. Her current work of deconstructing the landscape aims to shed light on the beauty of ordered chaos.

The members of the Cannon Beach Gallery Group invite you to play along the shores of Cannon Beach and in the varied and beautiful galleries of our town. Nestled between the wild ocean and the coastal mountains Cannon Beach offers art and craft ranging from the playful to the sublime. On May 5, 6 & 7, each gallery will spotlight new work by their chosen artists. Unveilings, demos and receptions take place all weekend long, making this event an unparalleled experience for the art lover.

Winner of the Two night stay at the Tolovana Inn is Rick Chaney from Des Moines, Washington

2017 Spring Unveiling Gallery Listings!

In the war between man and the natural world, it would appear, judging from his unpeopled cityscapes, nature has won. Levinson’s worlds – washed in dour grays, ochre, and sepia brown – suggest the landscape before us is already becoming a relic. The brightest colors, the occasional burst of blue sky that breaks out from behind cloud-crowded sky, the flash of red graffiti on a rhino, illuminate the scene. Currently living in Portland, Oregon, you can see the influence Portland’s industrial areas and older architecture have had on Levinson. His “backyard” has become the subject of his art. A “new place” has emerged in his work based on the collision of urban landscapes and the natural world – in which the deer and the zebra roam, while wildebeests graze in the city’s Chinatown, and beneath an underpass in a switching yard, a tagged walrus, big as a train car, appears to rest his weary flippers.

“Sunup” by David Rice

David Rice

Much of David’s work focuses on the themes of nature and its personifying characteristics. Growing up in the mountains of Colorado, he has a special connection with the outdoors. David uses the natural landscape and its inhabitants as his primary subject matter. Melding together an organic style with graphic overlays, his style combines a mixture of the natural world with a geometric presence. The combination of the organic with the human engineered. This speaks to how instead of only a natural world existing, or one that is manmade, the two can coexist harmoniously if the dominant party yields to this cohesive existence. A balance is needed for both parties to survive. He currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon

“Haystack Rock – Twilight” by Nicole Gustafsson

Nicole Gustafsson

Nicole works as a full time illustrator specializing in traditional media paintings featuring everything from woodland characters and environments to pop culture based projects. She uses a stunning color palette to capture fantastical places portrayed. Her interest in wildlife and trees grew into a life-long passion of the natural world and continues to be a theme in her artwork.

Using the patina process on bronze plates as his canvas, Nathan Bennett mines new veins in painting. His landscapes have a surreal quality, a sense of otherness, which is partly due to his unusual medium. Taking the chemicals normally used to finish bronze sculptures — the oxides, nitrates and acids — Bennett instead wields them as he would paint on an eighth-inch-thick sheet of silica bronze that becomes his canvas. The work itself is stark, haunting almost, in its barrenness. His landscapes startle. Without relying too much on the materials themselves for effect, Bennett realizes nature in cold hard metal, light in acidity and a kind of esthetic spirituality born of poetic austerity. Over the last 12 years, Bennett’s art has been exhibited in solo and group shows around the country.

“Journey of the Medlar” by Margret Short

Margret Short

This Oregon artist specializes in still life and floral subjects in oils. She is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America and Master Signature Member of American Women Artists. Captivated by Rembrandt’s bling, Margret has replicated 17th century paints for her collection by hand grinding each pigment. Luscious colors, with magical names like lapis lazuli, cinnabar, and malachite are the focus of each bountiful still life. Not only are the colors reproduced, but sections of each original work in her paintings are a game of hide and seek.

“Sweet Sipper” by Melissa Cooper

Melissa J. Cooper

Spending ten years working in a foundry as a young woman starting at age 17, Cooper learned and performed virtually all the labor-intensive steps involved in casting bronze at a Loveland, Colorado foundry. But not once during those ten years did Cooper pick up a chunk of wax or clay and ponder creating her own little work of art. Despite the grime and hard work, those years at the foundry were worth it, the award-winning artist acknowledges. They gave her an invaluable education in working in bronze from the bottom up. As a result, she can visualize a complex three-dimensional design (without drawing it on paper), calculate the necessary structural strength and interrelations of its various parts, and bring it to reality—in many cases without ever having seen how the artwork will look as a whole. Cooper’s widely collected wildlife art—from five-inch to monumental scale—depicts such creatures as rabbits, beavers, chipmunks, and bears, known for their combination of graceful shape and, as the artist puts it, “fluffy and robust” charm. An impressionistic style suits Cooper well for a creature’s body. When it comes to the face, however, detail is key to infusing the animal with spirit and personality.

The gallery will open their second juried show of 2017 during the weekend.
“Frame of Reference” will feature contemporary artwork that blends text and image. From Egyptian hieroglyphics to contemporary graphic novels, cultures across centuries utilized various forms of text and image for communication. Work being submitted for the show can be done in calligraphy, altered books or maps, collage, mixed media, or any other media that follows the show’s theme.

Ann grew up roaming and “making” in the outdoors of Oregon. Spending so much time outdoors and having been exposed to formal art instruction at an early age has culminated today in her being a “maker” of glass that reflects the textures and colors of nature. In 2004, she took a workshop in fused glass from Roger Thomas. From the first hour she knew she had found her medium. It didn’t take long to turn one of the outbuildings on her property into a fused glass studio. Since retiring from her job as a school administrator, she has devoted herself to her passion for glass and gardening. She is drawn to the depth and complexity that are possible by layering glass into translucent images of amazing power. Every piece represents continuous learning and renewed excitement.

“Guessing Game” by Chuck Gumpert

Chuck Gumpert

Painting transports him into another world. Each new piece is an exploration. The canvas tells him where to go and the colors are the vehicle to get there. His pieces are expressive, energetic, moody and thought provoking. To paint out of habit or by formula would be to him the antithesis of artistic expression. When working on a large canvas, brush strokes are not a flick of the wrist, rather a full body gesture! He is inside that world for a while, playing in the colors and bathing in the light. The canvas becomes his entire field of vision. Abstract is an escape, a dizzying journey into … anything! He enjoys it when a viewer begins to see and names the things they are “seeing.” It is a different experience for everyone. He believes his sense of color and light derives from his continued practice over the last fifteen-plus years of computer graphics. Projected light and vivid color vs. reflected and natural…this exploration seems to be his ongoing quest.

“Shot Glasses” by Eli Mazet

Eli Mazet

He may be the most passionate glass artist you will ever meet. It all began when his brother introduced him to lamp work glass. He fell in love with it, spent hours on the torch practicing and within a few years had developed the skills that take most people a life time. His fascination with glass has led him to his most recent project, “The Contemporary Shot Glass.” While looking for something new to make, it became apparent to him that today’s glass artists were not making one of the most collected pieces of glass worldwide. With the support and sponsorship of Northstar Glass, he challenged top glass artists to create a new handcrafted shot glass. Using their skills, new techniques and glass, over 40 artists have now created more than 70 shot glasses, each a work of art. Their work has been documented in a book about how this movement has created the largest contemporary shot glass collection known today. After fifteen years of working in glass his enthusiasm has never faded and his love of glass has only grown. He is always looking for new things to make in glass and is always inspired by other glass artists.

What began as a five-year experiment evolved into a life-forming fascination with glass for Jim, who has been playing with fire for more than 40 years. His chemistry teacher’s observations about reality inspired him to enroll in art classes, so it is fitting that melting glass requires a grounding in both chemistry and physics. His Icefire Glassworks logo incorporates the alchemical symbols for Earth, Air, Fire and Water, honoring the obvious linkage of art and science. From that, beautiful pieces of blown glass emerge that seduce the senses and stimulate the spirit. He will show his latest work from his Embers series.

“Emerald Forest Bowl” by Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne was not reared to be a glass artist. It was her connection to the dream world that led her to become one at the age of 38. There were always hints, persistent nudges that would not be ignored, from favorite childhood words (horizon, crucible) to a vision of dancing in flames that led her to Cannon Beach and propelled her into the passionate world of soft molten glass. Inspired by the places she has lived, she makes blown glass pieces that express Nature in the tangled patterns of woodlands, the stark horizons of deserts, and the mysteries of deep water. She will be showing the latest work in her Emerald Forest series.

“Murrini Vase – White with Blue” by Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon

Mark began blowing glass in 2003. His first experience with the medium was at Icefire Glassworks, and he now lives and works in Bend, Oregon. His current body of work is focused on blending colors and balancing them with individual forms. The challenge of combining colors in different ways, and working with a hot and fluid medium, keeps every day of working with glass new and exciting. He will be showing new work in his Murrini series during the weekend.

Born in South Carolina and now living in Virginia, Aggie studied at the University of South Carolina to gain a BFA Painting and Sculpture in 1974. She has exhibited extensively in the Southern region of America and her work is widely collected. She was awarded a Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts in 1982, and a National Endowment for the Arts Professional Fellowship in 1986. In 2012 Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, mounted a substantial show of her paintings and float sculptures called Keeper’s Keep. Her work has a sense of having arrived mid-narrative with unexplained content that is both disturbing and delightful. She does not see herself as a storyteller, but creates her work as a catalyst. “I’m like the person who shows you one page of a story and lets you guess the rest.” Her work challenges the viewer to make sense of what they are seeing, while embracing confusion about the unknown.

“A Little Wrong: Deliver My Soul From the Sword; My Darling From the Power of the Dog” by Juliellen Byrne

Juliellen Byrne

Juliellen received both her bachelor’s and master’s degree from Ohio State University. Much of her work explores the troubling emotions that surround injustice, loss and grief. “As my interest in figurative sculpture continues I am still motivated by the emotions of vulnerability, isolation and anger. As I step away and look objectively at my work I see how dreams, secrets and the experiences of others, as well as my personal experiences, have informed my work.”

“Escape” by Angela Purviance

Angela Purviance

A graduate from Oregon State University, Angela earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. During her time at OSU she focused on printmaking, where she took on the challenge of learning how to produce full color Intaglio prints. This type of copper plate etching is a multi-step process involving reworking a single plate for each color/layer of the image. In her studies she successfully produced vibrant, whimsical prints and quickly became one of the top printmakers in her graduating class.

Jeffrey began his painting career more than 40 years ago in Cannon Beach, and it is from its coastline that he draws his inspiration. Today he is widely known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, controlling the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings. Recently he has returned to painting in oil as well, and is rarely found far from the ocean’s edge. His deep love for the area is clearly seen in his original paintings and prints.

Jewelry artist Sharon Amber creates personal treasures using 14k, 18k, and 22k gold and exotic gems. She is best know for her high fire enameled “miniature paintings”, and her carvings in local gems and beach pebbles. During Spring Unveiling, she will reveal work and designs inspired by thousands of miles of travel over the last few months.

“Treasure Box with Golden Beryl” by Steven Amber-Voorheis

Steven Amber-Voorheis

This 20 year old designer began fabricating silver jewelry at the age of 9. His love for origami evolved into origami silver earrings, pendants, and rings with colored gems and pearls. He took a hiatus from jewelry making during his high school years to explore his interest in oceanography, and after two years of college has returned to jewelry design with enthusiasm. One of his designs recently won international recognition as a finalist in the 2017 Saul Bell Jewelry Competition. He currently lives in Independence, Oregon and works in silver, 14 and 18 karat gold, colored stones, and diamonds.

“Company Houses” by Bernard Geiser

Bernard Geiser

During the festival Sharon will be exhibiting paintings done by her Grand Uncle Bernard Geiser, a noted WPA painter. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and, while in France in World War I as a medic, painted murals in the base hospital in Perigueux. He subsequently became part of the Paris art scene, receiving a scholarship after the war in recognition of his murals. He later headed the art department at Western State College in Gunnison Colorado. After his wife perished of pneumonia, he gave up painting and was ordained as an Episcopal priest. He arrived in Portland in 1931, and while assigned to St. Mark’s Church, completed a series of eleven murals. Geiser commented, “I gave up art for the Church and the Church gave it back to me. He was very active in local art circles from his arrival in Portland until his death in 1965.

“Exhilaration” by Victoria Brooks

Victoria Brooks

After a successful career as an art director in television and motion pictures, Victoria Brooks has pursued her love of painting, which she has been doing for 20 years. In addition to being a talented studio artist, she is an accomplished plein air painter and has won numerous “Best of Show” awards for her studio and plein air works.

Hammered silver set with ammonite gemstones by Nick Ketcham

Nick Ketcham

Nick brings his enthusiasm to jewelry design, beginning with fabrication techniques at the age of 18, and is working between college terms in the jewelry studio. Now 19 years old, he is learning the difficult intricacies of ring construction. His designs are mostly abstract, and most include texture as a main component.

Fish Necklace by Thomas Tietze

Thomas Tietze

Thomas specializes in North West, nature and sea life inspired jewelry, such as salmon, trout, whales, dolphins and other denizens of the deep. An accomplished jeweler, designer and instructor, he brings over 35 years of experience and inspired passion to his designs. After completing an apprenticeship, he received further training from the Revere Academy in San Francisco and was instructed by the renowned Dieter Mueller-Stach, at CSULB. Thomas is a Jewelers of America Certified Senior Bench Jeweler. Originally from Cologne, Germany, his workshop and teaching studio is located in Portland.

The painting tradition is strong in Anne Packard’s family from her grandfather Max Bohn, a turn of the century impressionist, to her grandmother, great-aunt, uncle, mother, and daughter. Her art was initially worked on wood panels from wind drift along the shores of Cape Cod. As she became more involved with her art, she studied with the late Phillip Malicoat and also at Bard College. The artist Robert Motherwell saw great talent in Packard and purchased twenty-three of her paintings for his collection. With a greater knowledge and practiced discipline, new directions emerged. Today, her painting evokes the surge of relentlessly driven winter seas as well as the tranquil planes of dunes at rest, or an inviting narrow trail winding through sharp bladed dune grasses. The Cape, to which she has returned time and again continues to restore her spirit.

“Surrounding Seas” by David Jonathan Marshall

David Jonathan Marshall

With his imaginative style, bold use of color and dramatic perspective, David brings a fresh new look to the art world. His skill at capturing movement and animation in his art is a direct reflection of his own lifestyle and view of the world. He says, “I feel like I’m putting a puzzle together. I paint the pieces of that puzzle, but even I don’t always know what will be seen in the end.”

“Supernal Glory” by Josef Kote

Josef Kote

His paintings are symphonies of light and color. They are lyrically stunning and romantic, edgy and current. He achieves this delicate balance of seemingly contradictory qualities through his complete mastery in technique, and through years of experimenting to find his own unique style. With the lightness of a true master’s hand he combines classic academic and abstract elements, fixing these, literally letting them run into each other with dripping rivulets of riveting colors and light. His trade marks are his bold brush work and sweeping strokes of vibrant colors applied, more often than not, with a pallet knife, while other areas of the canvas are left monochromatic and devoid of detail creating a negative space that lets the eye drift to infinity. The results are paintings the tremble in stillness with energy and light.

Georgia’s bronze sculptures define many NW public spaces, including “Rachel the Pike Place Pig” in Seattle’s Pike Place Market and 25 sculptures surrounding Pioneer Courthouse in downtown Portland. Gerber won the 2010 Cannon Beach public choice award for Sculpture Without Walls with her “Tufted Puffins”. She typically works on two to three public installation commissions at one time using the traditional lost wax casting technique. For this year’s Spring Unveiling, she is creating a collection of six new works in celebration of our gallery’s 30th anniversary.

Skyscapes & Landscapes in oil reflect the artist’s most memorable and moving experiences with nature. Jeff paints the splendor of our natural world in the Northwest in pursuit of the ethereal & atmospheric light our region is known for.

“Northwest Squall” by Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

“Fremont Bridge” by Ivan McLean Image courtesy of Artslandia

Ivan McLean

Ivan is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. His work is also well known in California where he has just installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from ten sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

“Horse” by Tolley Marney

Tolley Marney

This Western sculptor creates powerful equine sculptures using antique wood inlays, steel and a lifetime of traditional blacksmithing skills. Rustic, yet elegant, these works are labor intensive and only ten are sculpted in a year.

“Coyote Woman” by Cristina Acosta

Cristina Acosta

Cristina’s lifelong love of birds, bears and horses is often depicted in a contemporary, yet folk art manner that is truly distinctive. Her “Memoir” paintings are influenced by her Spanish heritage and family history. She has created works in many media all of her life…murals, illustrations and a best selling book. This “Coyote Woman” painting is of her grandmother in her Native American dress.

Anne’s subjects are typically real people who model in thematic form. Her favorite models include her daughter and two daughters-in-law, though many friends have also found their way onto her canvases. Her artwork often includes a variety of mediums, which highlight the narrative style she employs within a surreal framework. Recently her multi-layered surfaces have involved collaged news articles related to the subject.

“Sayer of Little Things” by Robin & John Gumaelius

Robin & John Gumaelius

Robin and John Gumaelius incorporate steel, ceramic and wood to create animated human and anamorphic, bird-like sculptures. Robin creates, through sgraffito and complex decorative glazes, the colorful surface imagery and then John adds the exquisite metal armatures that give the artwork life and transform them into kinetic sculptures.

“Checkered Still Life” by Ken Grant

Ken Grant

His career began in retail store window and interior display working with many stores in the Portland area, before beginning a successful business as a freelance display artist and store designer, that also included teaching visual merchandising. At one time, he and a friend also operated a gallery in Cannon beach, where he also spent time working on his own drawings and sculptures. Next came a gallery in Portland, a featured piece in the “Works on Paper” exhibit at the Portland Art Museum, and the publication of a book of his drawings “The Nude.” Along the way he has done illustrations for books, magazines, greeting cards and advertisements. In 1994 he became an artist full time.

“Goldfinch” by Faryn Davis

Faryn Davis

From the mountains just west of Asheville, North Carolina, Faryn creates paintings and a line of jewelry which encases tiny painted scenes and found ephemera such as leaves, twigs, grass, thorns, bird bones, wasp nests, feathers, and moss into resin. Each piece is individually hand painted with toothpicks and tiny brushes, embedded in layers of resin.

With a focus on Northwest wines and regional cuisine, the Savor Cannon Beach festival offers a four-day lineup of wine, culinary and arts events March 9-12, 2017, in one of the Pacific Northwests most beautiful vacation destinations. Festival events focus on specific themes that showcase the bounty of Northwest wine and cuisine while restaurants, galleries and shops add a weekend full of tastings, special dinners and cultural events. The festival kicks off with the Thursday Night Throwdown, where participants taste twelve select wines including two of each varietal, one from Oregon and one from Washington, then vote on their favorites to determine which state reigns supreme. Other events include the Battle of the Blends featuring four red and four white wine blends from the Northwest. The evening also includes the Battle of Bites, showcasing appetizers by local chefs who compete for Best Bite. Saturday of the festival is the Savor Cannon Beach Wine Walk featuring approximately 40 Northwest wineries pouring tastings at Cannon Beach art galleries, restaurants and retail shops, all within easy walking distance in this compact beach community. Many Cannon Beach businesses also participate in a Tasting Tour featuring free or low cost tastings ranging from chocolates and olive oils to specialty salts and locally-made brews and spirits.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Savor Cannon Beach offers a four-day lineup of unique wine experiences in one of the Pacific Northwest’s most beautiful vacation destinations. Festival events focus on specific themes that showcase the bounty of Northwest wine and cuisine while restaurants, galleries and shops add a weekend full of tastings, special dinners and cultural events. Many of the wines served at festival events are award winners or wines that have received recent acclaim. Event descriptions are listed below.

THURSDAY, MARCH 9

5-7pm – THURSDAY THROWDOWN: BEST OF THE NORTHWEST
We’ve selected 12 award-winning wines representing different wine growing regions of Oregon and Washington and let you vote for the top wines of the evening. This event is a great way to discover new wines and varietals while you increase your awareness of Northwest wine regions. The evening also includes a selection of light bites. It’s a fun way to kick off the Savor Cannon Beach weekend! Location: Tolovana Inn (Warren/Grace Haven Room, 3400 S. Hemlock) Price: $40 (tickets available at the door)

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

1-4pm – WINEMAKER’S PREMIUM POURS
Northwest wineries have agreed to open up their cellars and share three special wines. Offerings will include library wines, verticals, horizontals or reserve wines. Palate cleansers are provided, but food is not served at this wine tasting event (pizza or sandwiches will be available for purchase). Location: Tolovana Inn (Warren/Grace Haven Room, 3400 S. Hemlock) Price: $40 (tickets available at the door)

11am-12:30pm – WINE TASTING 101
Learn to taste wine like a professional in this educational program with our favorite wine competition facilitators Hank and Nancy Sauer. You’ll learn the basics of wine tasting, wine terminology and etiquette for the tasting room or festival. Participants with Wine Walk tickets can check-in and pick up your glass at the end of this event. This is a sit down program, so you’ll want to arrive on time and we kindly request no fragrances be worn. Location: Tolovana Inn (Warren/Grace Haven Room, 3400 S. Hemlock) Price: $20 (tickets available at the door)

11:30am-1:30pm – GOLD MEDAL WINES & BATTLE OF THE BITES
This great event will tempt you to stay an extra day! You’ll taste 12 Gold Medal winning wines from the SavorNW Wine Awards selected the previous week by some of the top wine judges on the West Coast. This event will also feature the Battle of the Bites with “bites” prepared by Cannon Beach chefs and restaurants; and your vote will determine the winner. Location: Tolovana Inn (Warren/Grace Haven Room, 3400 S Hemlock) Price: $40 (tickets available at the door)

FESTIVAL PASSES: A Festival Pass including admission to all of these events is $195 (a limited number of Festival Passes are offered by advance purchase only).

PURCHASING TICKETS: All Savor Cannon Beach events are limited in size and we recommend advance purchase. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door to each event.

EVENT CHECK-IN INFORMATION: All Savor Cannon Beach events are considered ‘will-call.’ Please plan to check in to each event using your printed ticket confirmation and ID.

LOCATIONS: Please note that events are in a variety of locations. Make note of the check-in location for each ticket purchased.

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Each November Cannon Beach’s art community gathers to collectively celebrate diverse talents during this popular festival of the arts.

Galleries, shops, hotels and restaurants host a variety of writers, singers, composers, painters, sculptors and more. The unique coastal beauty of this region has inspired creativity for many decades, making Cannon Beach one of The Best Art Towns in America.

Transform your coastal experience into a festival of creativity filled with music, theater, poetry and art.

Bold colors, geometric patterns, and botanical profiles capture the eye in Erik Abel’s artwork. Inspired by his love of the ocean, surfing and travel, his work articulates the spirit of the water and awe of nature. His roots as a California surfer intermingle with his experiences traveling to the South Pacific and Central America, imparting an organic, tribal style to his subjects and compositions. Upon a closer look, Abel’s graphic imagery unfolds to tell the story of his paintings. Accents peak through unexpectedly revealing the layers of color Abel cloaks in each piece while loose strokes of colored pencil and marker create dimension. Erik currently lives in Seaside, Oregon.

Josh Keyes

Overgrown is the title of Josh’s new series of paintings that embody the theme of natural entropy, regrowth, and restoration. The imagery in these paintings illustrates a post-human world, an environment reclaimed by nature. At first glance, the imagery calls to mind the contemporary fixation and anxiety surrounding the ever-growing impact the human presence has in relation to environmental change. The cause or event leading to the absence of humans is left to the viewer’s imagination; Josh’s focus is on the remaining landscape.

David Rice

Much of David’s work focuses on the themes of nature and its personifying characteristics. Growing up in the mountains of Colorado, he has a special connection with the outdoors. He uses the natural landscape and its inhabitants as his primary subject matter. Melding together an organic style with graphic overlays, his style combines a mixture of the natural world with a geometric presence. The combination of the organic with the human engineered. This speaks to how instead of only a natural world existing, or one that is manmade, the two can coexist harmoniously if the dominant party yields to this cohesive existence. A balance is needed for both parties to survive.

Ivy Jacobsen

Ivy strives to create a place of magical realism in my landscapes, balancing magical elements with real world rendering of flora and Fauna found in our natural world. Her paintings are composed of many thin layers of oil paint, bronzing powder, acrylic paint, epoxy resin, and other mixed medias on wood panel. Through the multiple semi-transparent layers the trees and plant forms begin to occupy various spaces in the foreground and background, creating the illusion of depth. It is her hope that the viewer is invited “into” the painting to fully explore the imaginary environment.

Nicole Gustafsson

Nicole works as a full time illustrator specializing in traditional media paintings featuring everything from woodland characters and environments to pop culture based projects. She uses a stunning color palette to capture fantastical places. Her interest in wildlife and trees grew into a life-long passion of the natural world and continues to be a theme in her artwork.

Chris Austin

Chris is a visual artist who creates intricate patterns, textures, and line-work into his artwork. He explores our relationship to the world and the impact humankind has had on our environment with otherworldly landscapes and his subject matter on bears, of which he says, “bears are often considered to be respected ancestral spirits, and each bear painting is created with the intent of being a protector, for himself and the viewer of his work.” Chris Austin currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

Matthew Palmer began to think big at an early age. By age twelve, he was creating life-size creatures out of masking tape and newspapers in his basement. He later was selected to participate in the vocational fine arts program at Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center in Columbus, Ohio. Opting to pass on several scholarships, he decided to get his training hands on. Working full time at Old World Stone Carving for six years, he gained tremendous experience designing and executing commissioned sculptures and architectural elements. He became skilled at using a variety of traditional media, including stone, marble, clay, wood and bronze.

Jim Eppler

Jim brings the power, beauty, harshness and magnetic attraction of nature to both his paintings and bronzes. He creates from the experience of his lifelong enchantment with wildlife and his innate gift for the use of color and form. A seasoned artist who readily admits a romance with “the play of light and shadow, the way paint builds on canvas,” he is equally captivated by gestures and textures that lend themselves to the three-dimensional aspect of bronze. Bringing his skill as a colorist to his sculpture, Eppler hand-finishes each bronze in his limited editions.

Robert Rogers

Robert is a native Texan whose work has been inspired by Native American art, Oriental art, and European art – along with 40 years of studies in scouting and Indian Lore. He studied at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and has been greatly influenced by his visits to the great art Meccas of Europe and especially by the art of Gustave Klimt. For more than 27 years, Robert has created fine jewelry as an art and as an expression of love for the craft. His work reflects the full expression of archetypes in Native American culture as depicted in petroglyphs and pictographs in ancient North American sites, blended with mystical spiritual symbols, Braille and other icons.

Carol Gold

Carol grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts and studied art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Boston University School of Fine Arts, MA; and the Museum School in Boston. Before she embarked on a sculpture career, however, she spent 14 years raising her family. In 1977 she resumed her art career in earnest, enrolling at the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA, to study bronze casting. Encouraged by her results with the medium, she built her own foundry in Northern California and has been operating it ever since. She shapes her figures and animals from wax instead of clay because she likes the way it can be manipulated to convey emotion and mood. “Wax enables me to sketch-in my figures rapidly,” she says. “It has a lightness to it that I like.” Her work is characterized by rich patinas in colors that range from warm tones of gold and copper to various shades of turquoise.

Joshua Tobey

The child of artists, Joshua grew up in a household where nature was as much a part of life as art…in fact so much so that perhaps one would not exist without the other. While in college in Colorado, he explored the mountains and rivers and finally decided to become a bronze sculptor. Today his subject matter is a combination of figurative studies combined with wildlife. He says it is because as apart as man is from nature, it is only in nature that he feels as if he is part of something bigger than himself.

Mark is a multimedia artist fluent in drawing, painting, animation and film. Stylistically, his color palette evokes comparisons to Fauvism, and his work certainly pays some tribute to German Expressionism. The paintings are a product of an experiential process where, in his words, “the mysterious rhythms of the place resonate in my body”. His intention is to communicate the freshness, excitement and brevity of his first glimpse and initial experience of a place. He is keen to qualify that this is no Impressionist manifesto, explaining, “the rhythms I refer to are also abstract and graphic, not just about the fleeting effects of light.”

Painting the figure has been her lifelong passion. Living in the Northwest, and having a daughter who dances professionally has spurred the recurring themes of figures in the rain, and the ballet, but nothing is off limits. She finds it easy to work on design and the interaction between people, when working on a piece with multiple figures or a single figure, or even just a face. The love of the process is what keeps her moving forward, capturing the human form in everyday moments. She never wants her paintings to feel posed, but rather embedded in their own reality. Their gaze is usually behind the frame, rather than out of the frame toward the viewer. Viewers are allowed to peer in, but the subjects do not notice. The effect enlarges the virtual world of the subject.

Kelly Howard

Kelly Howard brings to her glasswork a depth of artistic and intellectual enquiry. A native of the Midwest, she was initially drawn to glass during a blacksmithing workshop, and her continued education in glass has taken her to such institutions as Pilchuck, Corning and the Eugene Glass School. She has traveled extensively in Australia, Italy and Spain, seeking ideas and inspiration. She now makes her home on the south coast of Oregon where she has worked exclusively in glass for the past 12 years. Her work in glass is about color and form and in the last few years she has developed in a direction that is much more painterly and experimental.

Michael Orwick

His skill as a landscape artist creates compelling views of our world that move beyond time and place – places as mysterious as Oregon’s craggy coast, as unpredictable as a glacial view of Mount Hood, or as serene as an Oregon waterfall. His work can conjure up thoughts of Remington in his most enamored moments with the majestic west, or the dance of an impressionist on a pond or the snow.

Anton Pavlenko

A Ukrainian-born painter he has always been drawn to creating imagery. His earliest memories are of drawing Russian cartoon characters before he immigrated to the United States with his family as a toddler. Encouraged by his father, he persisted in educating himself about art and painting, and today remains largely self-taught and deeply inspired by the natural world.

She says “As soon as I started working in oils I couldn’t get enough.” As an admirer of the impressionists, she loves the effects of light and color the medium allows. Each time, she strives to create a place more beautiful than perhaps it may actually be, wanting her paintings to bring the viewer into a world they would love to be in.

Jeni Lee

Jeni’s work captures the ways in which we experience our surroundings, the sea, the forest, and the desert, paths both taken and dreamed. With many paint glazes and color washes, marks of crayons and sweeps of pastels, she continually layers and works the surface, always pursuing the unexpected in both materials and methods. As a painting emerges, she includes elements that draw the viewer closer, inviting both intention and chance, resulting in an engaging representation of transformation and beauty.

Janis Ellison

Janis is a native Californian who found herself living in New Mexico in the mid 1990′s. She was drawn to the dramatic landscape and began painting alongside her friends and mentors in the budding days of the early pastel painters of this century. Her loved of nature and the outdoors was a natural companion to her passion for painting “Plein-Air” and continual quest to share her view through her paintings. In 2006, Janis moved to Oregon, where the pristine setting of her new home provides endless inspiration for her work.

Lee Bogle

Lee starts each piece with a background wash of color which forms the foundation for the painting’s development. Nature itself may become part of the process with weeds or thistles used to apply the watercolor. “These paintings are an outgrowth of the my appreciation of bold, painterly brush strokes and my love for precise detail.” Her paintings are contemporary impressions of wildlife and nature where she combines vivid, realistic detail with the expressive qualities of abstraction in the Oriental tradition.

Albert Van Tropa

Albert’s work has been influenced by studying the old masters like Rembrandt, Claude Monet, and Sergei Bongart. Understanding the principles of painting and knowing the rules has influenced his work as well. Using the strategies of starting with a thumbnail sketch, value studies, preliminary watercolor painting, visualizing the end result, coupled with continued study and practice has developed his talent. He enjoys the study of light, taking it from a dark rich color and blending it with brilliant lighter colors to create an image he has visualized.

John Ebner

John’s background in commercial art led to fine arts in the early ’70s when he started painting watercolors. As a Northwest artist for more than 20 years, he has mastered the ability to suspend time, creating a lasting image of a quiet moment. His paintings call the spirit, allowing the viewer to feel the same serenity as the artist. The mystery and depth of nature presented on the paper is a statement of his personal nature. His work is displayed in many corporate collections including Boeing, Washington Mutual Bank, Pacific NW Bell, Hyundai Corp of Japan, Texaco, Microsoft, and Safeco.

Christine Joy

Having struggled through heath problems as an elementary student Christine learned to express herself through artwork and creativity. She says, “Now I simply cannot go a week without painting!” Living in the Northwest she is inspired to paint wildlife, mountains and landscapes. Recently she has enjoyed painting aspen trees, vineyards and countrysides with oils, acrylics and watercolors. Her artwork is a combination of impressionistic and realistic painting. She loves using thick textured paint to add dimension and interest.

Christina Fowler-Thias

Christina Fowler-Thias is a studio jeweler who works with metals, stones, enamels and resins to produce one of a kind works that are meant to evoke story and soulful emotion in the wearer. Science, symbolism and story are heavy influences in her work but it is the love of stones, passed on to her from her lapidary grandfather, and her mother who worked alongside him in his shop, that is the foundation of her organic jewelry. Each piece is an exploration, an adventure. Sometimes the artist takes the lead, sometimes the materials. It’s a collaboration.

Jim’s life-forming fascination with glass began as a five-year experiment. Today, he has pieces in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries. And during Plein Air & More you’ll be able to see the first examples of his newest direction. Multiple firings of cast and fused glass will play with other materials, including wood and possibly clay. The idea is to produce work that evokes light and frozen motion. Over the next decade he expects Icefire’s sculpture to express ideas relating to transference, rhythmic and incremental repetition, bridging concepts and coherent light.

Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne’s journey into the world of glass began with a dream where she was suspended in a pillar of fire. Turning in the flames she found herself dancing. That dancing continues as she continues to learn the ways of glass, creating with it as her partner and bringing forth objects reminiscent more of water than fire: cool, smooth forms that reflect light as a pond does, sculptures that bend the light as a ripple does, calm creations that transmit light like the stillest pool.

Jeffrey began his painting career over 40 years ago as a resident of Cannon Beach. Though primarily self-taught, he did study under three Northwest Watercolorists in the early 70’s. Known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, Jeffrey controls the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings. Recently Jeff also returned to painting in oil as well. He is rarely found far from the ocean’s edge, the source of his inspiration. His deep love for the area is clearly seen in his original paintings and prints.

Sharon AmberFrom meteorites to mixed metals, you’ll find exceptional designs by master gold-smith Sharon Amber. A strong emphasis on exotic colored gems and movement of design in a surprisingly wide range. Classic, elegant, wearable art featuring several collections using local gems and materials. Sharon shows exclusively at her gallery of 30 years, and is now beginning to also show the work of her son Steven Amber-Voorheis.

Steven Amber-Voorheis

Victoria BrooksAfter a successful career as an art director in television and motion pictures, Victoria Brooks has pursued her love of painting, which she has been doing for 20 years. In addition to being a talented studio artist, she is an accomplished plein air painter as well, and has won numerous “Best of Show” awards for her studio and plein air works.

Contemporary surreal artist David Jonathan Marshall is well known for his imaginative and daring ideas put to canvas. In describing his own unique painting style, David reveals his desire to paint scenes the viewer has never seen before. Sungjects range from Cityscapes, fruitscapes, pear shapes, Modern landscapes, Tree Marvels… and most recently a “Bicycle Series” and “Architectural Series.”

Sarah Goodnough

Sarah’s work celebrates life. Her artistic style is expressive, using vibrant color, strong composition, and layered texture. She paints abstract viewscapes, pulling real life scenes into redefined realities of wonder and brilliance, creating in a variety of mediums; painting in oils, acrylics and watercolor. She also works with pastels, blockprints, mosaics and photography. By playing with composition and texture, she produces vibrant and unique work that is sensitive to mood and emotion.

Tom Henderson

Tom has been painting in oils and watercolor for more than twenty-five years. His inspiration comes from freely interpreting scenes that life provides. Some of his favorite subjects include boats, beaches, nature and architecture, where he also enjoys putting people into those scenes. But painting isn’t his only passion. He currently plays a chromatic harmonica in a jazz and blues band.

Georgia’s bronze sculptures define many NW public spaces, including “Rachel the Pike Place Pig” in Seattle’s Pike Place Market and 25 sculptures surrounding Pioneer Courthouse in downtown Portland. Gerber won the 2010 Cannon Beach public choice award for Sculpture Without Walls with her “Tufted Puffins”. She typically works on two to three public installation commissions at one time using the traditional lost wax casting technique.

Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

Skyscapes & Landscapes in oil reflect the artists most memorable and moving experiences with nature. Jeff paints the splendor of our natural world in the Northwest in pursuit of the ethereal and atmospheric light our region is known for.

Ivan McLean

He is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. His work is also well known in California where he has just installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from 10 sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

Heather’s father was a foundry worker who encouraged and supported her desire to sculpt. Drawing national attention as a child prodigy, her story was featured by Paul Harvey, People Magazine, National Geographic World, and “That’s Incredible.” In 2009 she bought the foundry she worked in and moved it to the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. Her “Sacagawea, Pompi, and Seaman” commissioned by the Port of Cascade Locks, has gained regional and worldwide attention.

Heather Soderberg

Heather will be demonstrating her technique and unveiling new works during the weekend. But many will also be interested in learning more about her much larger scale work on the Eagle Monument Project, a bald eagle with a 55 foot wingspan that will weigh approximately 8 tons when cast…all sculpted by hand.

Josh Henrie

Josh pursued his art career at Washington State University and later at Cornish, in Seattle. Following his path as a stone carver, he carved, experimented and slowly formed his own Northwest style. His deep passion of the raw beauty of the Pacific coast springs to life in his artwork. Unfinished chisel marks, raw stone and smooth detail work, resemble his coastal surroundings. Bringing out the soul of the stone and capturing its inner self, makes you almost hear the heartbeat.

Marianne Post

With sights set on obtaining a degree in veterinary medicine, she left her life in San Francisco to attend the University of California. But her interest in art upstaged her initial career path and she graduated with a degree in Environmental Design. In between her 30 years of design and illustration assignments she painted the landscape in soft pastels and continued her transition to becoming a full time painter in 2004. She is a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society and has work in several public and private collections across the U.S

Elaine Hansard

Growing up in Bozeman, Montana, she’s always had a love of nature. Some of her earliest memories were of drawing animals. What started with making horses out of Sculpey as a child, has progressed to making bronze sculptures inspired by fantasy and mythology. She is continuously striving to perfect her work, bringing her fanciful creatures into reality. Living in Bozeman helps her keep her imagination alive with an ever-growing passion to create, inspired by the beauty around her.

James Moyer

James is a local North Coast wood working artist with a great love of texture, grain and in blending styles from contemporary, abstract and traditional artistry. Incorporating wood found along the local beaches and river shores, his work demonstrates the power of simplicity and the rich design possibilities of patterns abstracted from nature. Self taught and still learning, his creations invite closer inspection giving wood and the work the stage.

Steven Krig

Steve is a Northwest native who, like many others, is inspired by the beauty of this region. He first began experimenting with glass in 2011 and has evolved his technique of working the glass to produce a painted/watercolor effect. He produces only two to four new pieces each year as he trades time for detail in his work.

Christopher has been represented by galleries from New York to Washington State, and has developed a signature style with emphasis on deconstructing images to their most important lines and organic forms. He strives to capture energetic movement, intense emotion and suggestive shapes essential to communicate his ideas in paint.

Robert Schlegel

In his work Robert presents his interpretation of objects and forms found in the natural world. Of particular interest to him are man made structures juxtaposed into the landscape. The interaction of shape, contrast and line are what intrigues him. As he has evolved as an artist, he has strived to create images that possess tension between the representational and the abstract. He began exhibiting pen and ink drawings in 1973 and has had work included in the Artists of Oregon Show at the Portland Art Museum, as well as several other juried Oregon shows.

Scott Johnson

Although Scott’s landscape studies are rooted in plein air painting, early on he began to add the little touches that rouse the imagination—the faint treetops that indicate a valley beyond the hill, or the tiny glint of water that tantalizes over a grassy dune. These hints at an unseen landscape beyond the one we see, were an introduction to his dream world. His love of nature is evident in his work, but its mood, often portrayed by impending weather, dominates the objects in the landscape.

8th Annual Plein Air & More, June 24-26, 2016 Cannon Beach has not only been named “One of the Best Art Towns in America,” but National Geographic has also listed it as “One of the Most Beautiful Places in the World.” So…what more could you ask for if you’re a plein air artist? That’s why they continue to come from around the world to capture the unique elements of this landscape “in the open air”. To celebrate this challenging artistic style and the work of the artists, the Cannon Beach Gallery Group is presenting the 8th Annual Plein Air & More festival. Scheduled for June 24-26, the event will feature nearly 50 artists creating art on location throughout the town and on the beach Friday, Saturday and Sunday. During the week, leading up to the event, several nationally recognized artists will also be conducting workshops.

Cannon Beach, OR – June 30, 2015 Nearly 40 artists participated in the Cannon Beach Gallery Group’s 8th Annual Plein Air & More Arts Festival which drew thousands to the coast June 24-26 to watch them paint and create throughout the town and on the beach. At the end of the festival, Kaline Carter from SW Art Magazine announced six awards for those painting “En Plain Air” as well as to those who represented the “& More” part of the event which opened it up to sculptors, wood carvers, glass artists, ceramicists, metal artists, jewelers and more.

Receiving awards from the magazine, along with a hand blown glass sculpture created by Cannon Beach Artist Jim Kingwell from Icefire Glassworks, were:

Brooke Borcherding, White Bird Gallery: Award of Excellence for “En Plein Air” work done onsite during the weekend and for overall body of work.

Dan Chen, Bronze Coast Gallery: Award of Excellence for “& More” work done onsite during the weekend and for overall body of work.

Receiving additional Honorary Awards of Excellence from the magazine:

Marianne Post, Primary Elements Gallery

Joanne Shellan, DragonFire Gallery

Eva Funderburgh, Archimedes Gallery

Suzanne Kindland, Icefire Glassworks

The public was also invited to vote for their favorite artist, based upon what they observed during the “Artists’ Swarm” and in the galleries representing the weekend’s artists. Winner of the “People’s Choice Award” for the second year was Jeffrey Hull, Jeffrey Hull Gallery. He also received a glass sculpture created by Jim Kingwell.

Make plans now to attend one of three workshops to be held during the week leading up to the Plein Air & More Art Festival. Come out to paint and then stay for all of the festivities over the weekend. The village and beaches will be filled with artists capturing the beauty of the area and galleries will be overflowing with art. Register now! All registrations are made directly with the workshop leaders and are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Lodging: Attendees are responsible for securing their own lodging. For more information go to: cannonbeach.org.

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2016 Plein Air & More Gallery Listings!

Archimedes Gallery’s show theme for Plein Air & More will be “Overgrown,” featuring two artists. In fact, the theme is also the title of Josh Keyes new paintings.

“Return” by Josh Keyes

Overgrown is the title of Josh Keyes’ new series of paintings that embody the theme of natural entropy, regrowth, and restoration. The imagery in these paintings illustrates a post-human world, an environment reclaimed by nature. At first glance, the imagery calls to mind the contemporary fixation and anxiety surrounding the ever-growing impact the human presence has in relation to environmental change. The cause or event leading to the absence of humans is left to the viewer’s imagination; Josh’s focus is on the remaining landscape.

“Shoals” by Eva Funderburgh

Eva Funderburgh’s new body of work deals with the overlap of humanity and the natural world. She uses her simple animal forms to examine human motives and emotions. Storytelling and the idea of myth plays a very large role in her work, but equally so the notion of biology. Humans are intrinsically biological and the growth of cities follows the same biological imperative as a blooming flower or growing tumor. Eva tries to examine this notion of growth without pronouncing a moral judgment on it. Hence, her beasts may sometime carry entire civilizations on their back, though the question of symbiote or parasite is left open.

Pamela Claflin has a deep love and respect for nature…especially desert and arid areas from the Northwest to the Southwest. In her paintings she wants to transfer to the viewers the reason for capturing that particular scene…be it the quality of light, color, textures, a water source in an unusual area, or the absolute beauty of a grand scene. Occasionally she enjoys capturing a building, a bloom or animal, or an etched-out life style.

“Rooster II” by Dan Chen

Dan Chenwas born in China, in the province of Canton. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1984, enrolled at San Francisco City College and studied graphic design and illustration at the Academy of Art University. Since then, his professional career has focused full-time on nature and wildlife art in both paintings and sculptures. His art is a marriage of the finest qualities of eastern and western art style and technique.

“Heceta Head” by Donnie Wanner

Donnie Wanner’stime spent working for an automobile manufacturer set him on his artistic path. Being a quick learner with an artist’s eye, he was fascinated by the molding of metal, welding, fabricating, mold making, coloring, and the ultimate production of something that was fresh, exciting, and stimulating to look at. He is recognized as a highly skilled artist specializing in metal wall sculptures depicting landscapes of regional scenes.

The Cannon Beach Arts Mobile Gallery will be parked in the US Bank lot and will be showing Cannon Beach Gallery’s featured Plein Air artist, selected works from students of the CBAA Plein Air painting weekend, and selected works from Icefire Glass Studio. The Mobile Gallery will also act as an information and voting point for the Plein Air and More Awards.

Seattle artist, Joanne Shellan began her career with watercolor and in just two years found success in galleries, solo shows and commissions, started winning awards and attained her signature membership in the Northwest Watercolor Society. But the frustration she was feeling with that medium told her that something was still missing. So, after happening on a demonstration of ala prima oil painting, she gave away her watercolors and bought oils. “The dense pigment and rich texture of oils truly express the art that has always been inside me.” Today, she paints in oils and acrylics and is known for her strong design and rich color.

“Pacific Coastline” by Anton Pavlenko

Anton Pavlenkois a Ukrainian-born painter who has always been drawn to creating imagery. His earliest memories are of drawing Russian cartoon characters before he immigrated to the United States with his family as a toddler. Encouraged by his father, he persisted in educating himself about art and painting, and today remains largely self-taught and deeply inspired by the natural world.

Albert Van Troba has been passionate about drawing and painting most of his life. When in the 3rd grade, he won the Idaho State Art Contest in Drawing and Painting and his dream of becoming an artist and art teacher began. He has now been living this dream for 37 years. Today he is known primarily as a plein air painter and a wild life artist.

Christine Joy

Christine Joy paints with oils, acrylics and watercolors, inspired daily to paint wildlife, mountains and landscapes. She says, “My artwork is a combination between impressionistic and realistic painting. I believe that art is to be beautiful and up-lifting, so I do my best to paint in a way that brings joy to others.”

“The Corner House” by Sally O’Neill

Sally O’Neill has always been involved in the arts–painting, drawing and music. After working primarily in watercolor beginning in the 80′s, she went back to working solely in oils in 1998, and knew this was the perfect medium for expressing her obsession with light, color and atmosphere. She is both a plein air and studio artist, and is a previous winner of the “People’s Choice” award at Plein Air & More.

“Edgewaters” by Janis Ellison

Janis Ellisonis drawn to the dramatic landscape of New Mexico and painted alongside her friends and mentors in the budding days of the early pastel painters of this century. Her love of nature and the outdoors was a natural companion to her passion for painting plein air. Recent honors include having a painting selected for the Pastel 100 in Pastel Journal, in competition with 3000 other artists, and notification that she will be awarded “Master Circle” status by the International Assoc. of Pastel Societies.

“Heceta” by Dave Bartholet

Dave Bartholetis a self-taught Oregon wildlife artist. His work has been featured on posters and stamps benefiting wildlife preservation.

What began as a five-year experiment evolved into a life-forming fascination with glass for Jim Kingwell, who has been playing with fire for more than 40 years. His chemistry teacher’s observations about reality inspired him to enroll in art classes, so it is fitting that melting glass requires a grounding in both chemistry and physics. His Icefire Glassworks logo incorporates the alchemical symbols for Earth, Air, Fire and Water, honoring the obvious linkage of art and science. From that, beautiful pieces of blown glass emerge that seduce the senses and stimulate the spirit.

“Sunset Vase” by Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne Kindland was not reared to be a glass artist. It was her connection to the dream world that led her to become one at the age of 38. There were always hints, persistent nudges that would not be ignored, from favorite childhood words (horizon, crucible) to a vision of dancing in flames that led her to Cannon Beach and propelled her into the passionate world of soft molten glass. Inspired by the places she has lived, she makes blown glass pieces that express Nature in the tangled patterns of woodlands, the stark horizons of deserts, and the mysteries of deep water.

“California Poppies Vase” by Michelle Kaptur

Michelle Kaptur has been blowing glass since 1975. After ten years learning the basics of glass blowing, she moved on to paint for several years. “Painting is where I put together all the composition, color and design stuff that I learned about in school. When I came back to glass I had a much stronger sense of the design choices I wanted to make and why.” She has had her own glass studio, Glass Dancing, in Bend, Oregon since 1994, previously working with Icefire Glassworks.

Jeffrey Hull began his painting career more than 40 years ago in Cannon Beach, and it is from its coastline that he draws his inspiration. Today he is widely known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, controlling the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings. Recently he has returned to painting in oil as well, and is rarely found far from the ocean’s edge. His deep love for the area is clearly seen in his original paintings and prints.

After a successful career as an art director in television and motion pictures, Victoria Brooks has pursued her love of painting, which she has been doing for 27 years. In addition to being a talented studio artist, she is an accomplished plein air painter as well, and has won numerous “Best of Show” awards for her studio and plein air works.

Jeff White’s skyscapes & landscapes in oil reflect his most memorable and moving experiences with nature. He paints the splendor of our natural world in the Northwest in pursuit of the ethereal & atmospheric light our region is known for. Jeff has won the Plein Air & More People’s Choice Vote. His painting “On the Clackamas” was featured in Southwest Art Magazine. He has been featured on Oregon Public Television’s Art Beat.

“Sphere” by Ivan McLean

Ivan McLean is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. Well known for his work in California, he has recently installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from 10 sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

“Fishing with Audubon’s Great Blue Heron” by Kara Krieger-McGhee

Kara Krieger-McGhee is a narrative oil painter with naturalist passions and Trompe L’oeil influences. This technique literally means “trick the eye”. It is a study in “seeing”, which in layman terms means that the artist works to train their eye to be aware of every little nuance in the interplay of light with objects, value with color and warmth with cool. Once grasped the artist is able to create a two-dimensional painting that causes the viewer to feel that they can reach in and grab the objects they are looking at. Her current “Not-so-still-life” series invites people into a specific bird species’ life, with the birds interacting with their story.

“Oregon Pinot” by Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel Schlesinger discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

Because she loves the natural beauty of stone, wood and feathers, Mickie Skinner has combined her paintings of animals and nature using them as her ‘canvas’. She call it painting nature on nature. To her, it’s as if she has reproduced them in their own environment.

“Autumn Sigh” by Steven Krig

Steven Krig finds great comfort in glass as it allows him to partner with the light. Glass is a unique medium in this regard. He says he can’t hold light in his hand so he simply befriends glass in an effort to influence light’s path. Light will continue to work its brush, introducing countless subtle changes to the paths he creates for it long after his hand has left the imagery.

“Delta Ponds” by Marianne Post

Marianne Post is an avid outdoors woman whose subject is “naturally” the landscape. Using soft pastels in a “painterly” impressionistic style, her award winning work reflects quiet morning vistas, light glinting off the water’s surface and the grandeur of the Oregon high country. It also conveys her fascination with nature, light and color.

“Coastal View” by Mike Rangner

As an Oregon native, Mike Rangner has enjoyed a successful career as a professional illustrator in the Portland area for more than 20 years with clients including Nike and Standard Insurance and awards and honors from service organizations including the Oregon Food Bank, and Goodwill Industries.A recent move to the Mid-Willamette Valley has allowed him to further strengthen his love of plein air and studio painting by capturing the vast and diverse Oregon landscape that lies one hour in each direction of my home and studio in beautiful Northwest Albany. The diverse body of work includes pieces featuring landscapes across the Pacific Northwest including the Columbia River Gorge, Eastern Oregon, Coastal scenery and the rich farmlands of the Mid-Willamette Valley.

Brooke Borcherding is dedicated to an ongoing inquiry of building the landscape through paint. Growing up painting palm trees of southern California, she moved to Oregon which inspired her to take an easel outside for the first time in 2009. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 2010, but is mostly self taught by observing/ responding to nature. With a practice of both plein air and studio painting she now works as a full time artist in Seattle WA. Her current work of deconstructing the landscape aims to shed light on the beauty of ordered chaos.

“Lavender and Greens” by Gretha Lindwood

Gretha Lindwood’s paintings are best described as “crisp, refreshing, and vivid.” Vibrant color and strong design are hallmarks of her work developed during a 30-year career as an illustrator and graphic designer. Using soft pastel sticks, recompressed powdered pigments from the earth, she makes her marks on artist grade sandpaper to express the effects oflight and atmosphere as she paints the landscape en plein air.Recent awards for her work include “Best Pastel” at the 2013 Pacific Northwest Plein Air Competition. She has also won recognition for her work at shows in Laguna, Carmel, and Los Gatos.

Untitled by Dave and Boni Deal

Dave and Boni Deal. This husband and wife team has collaborated in clay for more than 30 years, working full time at their rustic home studio in the Cascades. They have worked almost solely in raku since the 70′s, and are known for large classical forms and intricate surface designs. A unique aspect of their pottery is the focus on the native environment… the plants, geology, and wildlife that are reflected in the themes and materials used in their work, like the heron urns, leaf imprint pots and landscape triptychs. During the weekend, they will be doing a raku firing on the beach at sunset.

“A Brilliant Day” by Pamela Wachtler-Fermanis

Pamela Wachtler-Fermanis’ work reflects the impressionistic style of “The Philadelphia 10.” a group of Moore College painters of the 1900′s. Her pastoral landscapes invite the viewer to pause and walk down the lane. She says, “The world is a beautiful place and that’s what I try to capture in my paintings. Even ordinary life offers magical moments for my canvas.”

Baskets by Debra Carnes

For 30 years Michigan Native Debra Carnes has been hand-crafting woven works of art from ever-changing materials. Her pieces have been displayed in juried shows and galleries in Michigan, Florida and Oregon. Her baskets and sculptures are currently inspired by the growing concern to create sustainability; using natural, found, and traditional materials that also give the viewer a sense of the local beauty that inspires her to weave.

The members of the Cannon Beach Gallery Group invite you to play along the shores of Cannon Beach and in the varied and beautiful galleries of our town. Nestled between the wild ocean and the coastal mountains Cannon Beach offers art and craft ranging from the playful to the sublime. On May 6, 7 & 8, each gallery will spotlight new work by their chosen artists. Unveilings, demos and receptions take place all weekend long, making this event an unparalleled experience for the art lover.

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What inspires Kelly is the beauty of optimism, and its inherent tragedy, just before disappointment. Her paintings are marked by darkness as well as gleeful exuberance, creating a surreal and fluctuating world. Her painting technique is characterized by meticulous and tiny strokes layered on a textured background. Her colors are glistening and candy-like. Her characters are often floating and tangled, drawn with a masterfully delicate illustrator’s hand and an eye for the whimsically sardonic.

“Owl Mask” by Melita “missmonster” Curphy

Melita “missmonster” Curphy

She creates one of a kind handmade masks, dolls, and sculptures. Each piece is original with individual stories and personalities. Her favorite, and most satisfying to make, are dolls because so many disciplines go into making them: sewing, pattern drafting, sculpting, casting/molds, painting, anatomy, fiber arts, model making and more.

“Mourning Raven” by Lana Crooks

Lana Crooks

Lana loves the antique, the creepy, the cute, and the mysterious. She constructs creatures from fabrics and found objects, and is a purveyor of faux specimens and soft curiosities. She is sought after for her pattern-making abilities, and has frequently been spotted teaming up with other artists to breathe three-dimensional life into their illustrations. On an average day, you can find her in the studio surrounded by skulls, old books, model ships, faux fur, glass eyes, a menagerie of stuffed friends, and a cat named Tanuki.

Don sculpts because he enjoys the challenge of manipulating space and chooses birds as his subject matter because “they fascinate him to no end.” His work explores the relationship of positive and negative space and manipulates this interplay in mixed metals to give the impression of life and movement. His work, although somewhat abstract, is based on anatomical accuracy. He says, “I feel you should have an intimate understanding of your subject matter before you attempt to abstract it.”

“Full House” by Victoria Parsons

Victoria Parsons

Any chance for Victoria to interact with wildlife in spirit, motion or daily life creates the inspiration for her sculptures. Her naturalistic style is enhanced by the use of unique specialty wood such as rare 1500 year-old bristlecone pine, found in the Colorado mountains as high as 12,000 feet. She also utilizes burl woods, which yield stunning one-of-a-kind creations because of their shape, age and rarity. Her talents extend into clay and wax sculptures which are cast for limited bronze editions. She is dedicated to making a connection with her subject, which embodies and transcends the essence of the animal.

“Witness” by Seth Vandable

Seth Vandable

Seth began his career as a commercial artist and painter in central Texas. He strives to capture the quiet strength and dignity of mankind in his compositions. His detailed working knowledge of human anatomy has eliminated the need for models, making each sculpture a truly original creation. He has participated in the National Sculpture Society Exhibition in New York and his sculptures can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide.

This year marks the gallery’s 15th Anniversary, so they will be both celebrating and expressing gratitude by giving back to this amazing place we all call home.

Their group show: Wild Spirit, Conservation for Life…raising funds through the arts is inspired by their love for the environment and all that walks, flies, and swims, upon and through it. They’ve asked their artists to express their own truth and gratitude for all we have and be a part of ensuring its preservation forever. 15% of gross sales from the show will be donated to the North Coast Land Conservancy. More than a dozen artists are taking part and all media will be represented, from metal sculpture to fused glass to mixed media. Unveilings will include a curated selection of Staff Favorites. A gallery full of artists will celebrate and demonstrate. The North Coast Land Conservancy will also be represented with a presentation and book signings.

The environments in which she’s lived and traveled have become the foundation of who she is as a painter. Her work captures the ways in which we experience our surroundings, the sea, the forest, and the desert, paths both taken and dreamed. With many paint glazes and color washes, marks of crayons and sweeps of pastels, she continually layers and works the surface, always pursuing the unexpected in both materials and methods. As a painting emerges, she includes elements that draw the viewer closer, inviting both intention and chance, resulting in an engaging representation of transformation and beauty.

“Precious Gift” by Joseph Kitzmiller

Joseph Kitzmiller

Joe creates simply out of the inexhaustible passion to make the next beautiful thing, giving a lot of authority to the mixed medium in his work, which allows for some amazing results. Painting mostly on wood panels, his work has multiple layers of paint, some so thick the paint splits and cracks as it dries and shrinks back. In some of his work he also uses soft pastels and compressed charcoal. Adventure and discovery drive his soul and the world of art is like an undiscovered frontier. Art allows him to bring into existence something new, something previously unknown to the world, a new creation. And so he paints, exploring, discovering…creating.

“Broken” by Richard Hays

Richard Hays

Richard works primarily in welded steel representing ideas, questions and cliches. He says he is always aware of the emotions and conundrums of daily life and his work may make you think, groan, or smile. He calls his figures in my sculptures “Almas,” which is Spanish for souls. The Almas are in context offering interesting questions, cliches, and emotions which are sometimes obvious and sometimes not.

“aBANDONed” by Barbara Coppock

Barbara Coppock

Barbara is a printmaker, but not the kind that executes work in media such as oils or watercolors, and then has prints made by a machine. With etching, the image is worked into a plate by hand, drawing with a scribe and biting the lines into the metal with acid. The prints are then made from this plate on a press. Her passion is architecture, history, and landscape, so this time honored media is a perfect fit for her subjects.

What began as a five-year experiment evolved into a life-forming fascination with glass for Jim, who has been playing with fire for more than 40 years. His chemistry teacher’s observations about reality inspired him to enroll in art classes, so it is fitting that melting glass requires a grounding in both chemistry and physics. His Icefire Glassworks logo incorporates the alchemical symbols for Earth, Air, Fire and Water, honoring the obvious linkage of art and science. From that, beautiful pieces of blown glass emerge that seduce the senses and stimulate the spirit. He will show his latest work from his Embers series.

“Forest Vase” by Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne was not reared to be a glass artist. It was her connection to the dream world that led her to become one at the age of 38. There were always hints, persistent nudges that would not be ignored, from favorite childhood words (horizon, crucible) to a vision of dancing in flames that led her to Cannon Beach and propelled her into the passionate world of soft molten glass. Inspired by the places she has lived, she makes blown glass pieces that express Nature in the tangled patterns of woodlands, the stark horizons of deserts, and the mysteries of deep water. She will be showing her latest work in her Emerald Forest series.

“Murrini Bowl” by Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon

Mark began blowing glass in 2003. His first experience with the medium was at Icefire Glassworks, and he now lives and works in Bend, Oregon. His current body of work is focused on blending colors and balancing them with individual forms. The challenge of combining colors in different ways, and working with a hot and fluid medium, keeps every day of working with glass new and exciting. He will be showing new work in his Murrini series during the weekend.

Jeffrey began his painting career more than 40 years ago in Cannon Beach, and it is from its coastline that he draws his inspiration. Today he is widely known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, controlling the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings. Recently he has returned to painting in oil as well, and is rarely found far from the ocean’s edge. His deep love for the area is clearly seen in his original paintings and prints.

Jewelry artist Sharon Amber creates personal treasures using 14k, 18k, and 22k gold and exotic gems. She is best know for her high fire enameled “miniature paintings”, and her carvings in local gems and beach pebbles. During Spring Unveiling, she will reveal work and designs inspired by thousands of miles of travel over the last few months.

David is well known for his innovative freeform glass wave sculptures. He studied at the Pilchuck Glass School, founded by Master Glassblower Dale Chihuly. Studying under Therman Statom, it was here that his work with blown glass water fountains developed into an expression of water in the sculpted art form. He endeavors to create, by hand, a glass sculpture that embodies the essence of movement in water…each distinctly unique and individually created in his Seattle studio.

“The Four Graces” by David Jonathan Marshall

David Jonathan Marshall

With his imaginative style, bold use of color and dramatic perspective, David brings a fresh new look to the art world. His skill at capturing movement and animation in his art is a direct reflection of his own lifestyle and view of the world. He says, “I feel like I’m putting a puzzle together. I paint the pieces of that puzzle, but even I don’t always know what will be seen in the end.”

“Garden View January 2nd” by George Perrou

George Perrou

Inspired by mid-century animation and painted with retro and modern colors, George’s art evokes reminiscence to the giddy, Saturday mornings of “a better time” filled with the Hana-Barbara and Warner Bros. cartoons of our youth. Being drawn to these shapes and colors as envisioned by Calder, Miro and Kandinsky, he has re-imagined them onto the canvas with his own colorful versions of reality. “I find painting to be meditative, much like raking a Zen garden,” he says “it transports me as if traveling, but like stepping instead into another world.”

Georgia’s bronze sculptures define many NW public spaces, including “Rachel the Pike Place Pig” in Seattle’s Pike Place Market and 25 sculptures surrounding Pioneer Courthouse in downtown Portland. Gerber won the 2010 Cannon Beach public choice award for Sculpture Without Walls with her “Tufted Puffins”. She typically works on two to three public installation commissions at one time using the traditional lost wax casting technique.

Skyscapes & Landscapes in oil reflect the artists most memorable and moving experiences with nature. Jeff paints the splendor of our natural world in the Northwest in pursuit of the ethereal & atmospheric light our region is known for.

“Oregon Pinot” by Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel Schlesigner

Hazel discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

“Reinvention” by Ivan McLean

Ivan McLean

Ivan is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. His work is also well known in California where he has just installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from 10 sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

Leslie has spent her entire career trying to make glass “more livable, lovable, and warmer in feel.” She has gone beyond stained glass by carving and etching and also taught herself to sandblast, creating depth and textures. After eight years of experimentation with different paints on glass and many failures, she perfected a method of coloring glass without heating it, a process that was a giant leap for the industry. The mesmerizing qualities of the glass art led to Leslie’s appearance on the Modern Master’s Series produced by Home and Garden Channel (HGTV). Over the years, Leslie’s work has been featured in many local and national magazines, local television and newspapers. She won the 2005 ARTV National award as “Best Glass Artist” along with many other international and national awards.

Heather Soderberg

Heather’s father was a foundry worker and encouraged and supported her desire to sculpt. Drawing national attention as a child prodigy, her story was featured by Paul Harvey, People Magazine, Nat’l Geographic World, and “That’s Incredible”. In 2009 she bought the foundry she worked at and moved it to the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. Her “Sacagawea, Pompi, and Seaman” commissioned by the Port of Cascade Locks, has gained regional and worldwide attention. Currently, she is at work creating an eagle with a 50’ wingspan…the largest in the world.

“Delta Ponds” by Marianne Post

Marianne Post

Because she is an avid outdoorswoman, Marianne’s subject is “naturally” the landscape. Using soft pastels in a “painterly” impressionistic style, her award winning work reflects quiet morning vistas, light glinting off the water’s surface and the grandeur of the Oregon high country. It also conveys her fascination with nature, light and color.

“Double Trouble” by Rip Caswell

Rip Caswell

Rip is recognized as one of America’s major bronze sculptors. His artworks can be found in public spaces, commercial developments and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. His ability to capture emotion and tell stories through his sculpture is his most noted talent. His commitment to provide historical accuracy through in-depth study and research is evident in his finished projects. Through his attention to detail and artistic skill Caswell has gained professional recognition through collaborations with skilled architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers and other artists. Rip’s flexibility as a sculptor and his capacity to create work that embodies the theme of a specific site has been proven through the completion of many highly visible large-scale installations.

“Dragon” by Travis Pond

Travis Pond

This Portland artist is formally trained and recognized; showing many sculptures in public and private settings. He says that half of what he does is collecting materials. The objects have meaning and significance. They are part of our human history.

The seemingly random assortment of metal dictates its own future. The artist controls the welds, but the components refuse to be forced into form. The sculpture evolves through the mind’s eye as each piece connects to the next and becomes the final object of art.

Rumi has been doing and exhibiting painting, performance, ceramics, sculpture installation and fashion design in New York, Oregon and Japan since the 1980′s. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC in 1986 and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. During the week before Spring Unveiling, she will be unveiling a 54′ painting “At Play in Cannon Beach” that will be installed in the pergola adjacent to White Bird Gallery. Other works will be on display during the festival at White Bird Gallery.

“Chrysalis Necklace” by Melanie Brauner

Melanie Brauner

Melanie Brauner is a Seattle metalsmith, letterpress printer, bookbinder, and papermaker. Her VERSO jewelry is made from wire forms dipped into abaca paper fibers suspended in water. The fibers cling to the wire and shrink as they dry. A tight paper skin is built up on the form over successive dips. The paper-skinned forms are then sealed to make them waterproof and durable. You can get caught in a rainstorm or take a swim in the ocean wearing her jewelry.

“Sunrise Serene” by Cynthia Miller

Cynthia Miller

The Arts are Cynthia’s lifelong passion. She’s been an actor, director, member of the Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists. But her love for fine art has also drawn her to copper enameling because of the way it captures and celebrates light, color and depth that transforms any space. Many of her pieces are designed like musical compositions: colors overlay and peek through each other, revealing lush depths under a smooth shiny surface. Just as jazz and chamber musicians explore, dialogue, and trade musical themes from one instrument to another, so color moves from one area to another on the copper. It is exhilarating to explore the evolution of a composition as each successive layer adds luminosity and depth. Each composition is unique and intended to stimulate your imagination.”

“Released” by Jacquline Hurlbert

Jacquline Hurlbert

It’s crazy out there, so Jacquline retreats to her inside world. The one where she can breathe and calm herself. Clay serves as the vehicle for her meditation; it speaks without words. Everything that she feels is automatically transferred to the clay through her hands. It is her voice, not heard but seen. She invites you to communicate with her through visual imagery, creating a dialogue between yourself and the work. Oversized feet symbolize the strength to stand alone in the face of opposition. The figures with outstretched, exaggerated hands beckon you to step inside yourself. The hands are presenting and offering, a gift of personal insight.

Many figures are in costume reflecting her ongoing investigation of the many personalities and attitudes that reside in each one of us. She’s not the same person she was yesterday . . . and yet she is. She is changed by each new experience but yet the essence of who she is remains. She enjoys playing this game of cat and mouse with herself.

Each March, the Savor Cannon Beach festival features four-days of wine tastings, culinary and arts events and a wine walk featuring dozens of Northwest wineries. It’s a community-wide festival featuring activities all around town including six festival wine tasting events showcasing Northwest wines and savory bites.

Popular festival events include the Thursday Night Throwdown, a showdown between Oregon and Washington wines varietal by varietal. Participants taste twelve select wines including two of each varietal, one from Oregon and one from Washington, then vote on their favorites to determine which state reigns supreme. Other events include the Battle of the Blends featuring four red and four white wine blends from the Northwest.

SAVOR CANNON BEACH WINE WALK 2016

The Savor Cannon Beach Wine Walk on Saturday, March 12 is the largest event of the four-day Savor Cannon Beach Wine & Culinary Festival taking place March 10-13, 2016. Participants who purchase a glass can make the tour of Cannon Beach galleries, shops, restaurants and hotels, each hosting a winery offering tastings. Approximately 40 Northwest wineries will be featured on this year’s Wine Walk.

We advise advance purchase for all festival events, however, remaining tickets may also be purchased for the wine walk on Saturday beginning at 11am at the Coaster Theatre Box Office, 108 N. Hemlock. Individual event tickets will be made available at the door to each event.

Schedule of Events

THURSDAY, MARCH 105-7pm – THURSDAY NIGHT THROWDOWN
Taste 12 wines of six different varietals, one each from Oregon and Washington, in a head-to-head battle to see what state reigns supreme as participants choose the winners. Light bites from local chefs and restaurants are also featured. This year, youll taste some of the Northwests best examples of Tempranillo, Malbec and more. Location: Tolovana Inn (Warren/Grace Haven Room, 3400 S.Hemlock). Price: $40 (advance purchase recommended).

FRIDAY, MARCH 1111-12:30pm – THE WINEMAKER’S TABLE: MORNING EDITION
Taste special wines selected by the winemaker in a small table setting and learn about the winemakers approach and different Northwest wine regions. Then, when the bell rings, move on to the next table and meet another wine expert ready to share their passion. These sessions are limited to only 24 participants who will get an intense small group session with winemakers or winery representatives and the chance to taste some of their best offerings. Its our version of speed dating some of the best of Northwest wines! Location: Cannon Beach Community Hall (207 N Spruce St). Price: $40 (advance purchase recommended).

3-4:30pm – THE WINEMAKER’S TABLE: AFTERNOON EDITION
Taste special wines selected by the winemaker in a small table setting and learn about the winemakers approach and different Northwest wine regions. Then, when the bell rings, move on to the next table and meet another wine expert ready to share their passion. These sessions are limited to only 24 participants who will get an intense small group session with winemakers or winery representatives and the chance to taste some of their best offerings. Its our version of speed dating some of the best of Northwest wines! Location: Cannon Beach Community Hall (207 N Spruce St). Price: $40 (advance purchase recommended).

5-7pm – BATTLE OF THE BLENDS
Taste eight exceptional red and white wine blends representing the wine regions of the Northwest. We’ve also challenged local chefs to create a bite for the event and you can choose the winner of the Battle of the Blends and the Battle of the Bites. Location: Tolovana Inn (Warren/Grace Haven Room, 3400 S Hemlock). Price: $40 (advance purchase recommended).

SATURDAY, MARCH 1210:30am-12pm – SERIOUS ABOUT SYRAH
Taste a classic French Syrah from the Rhone Valley, then sample six of the Northwest’s best Syrahs representing some of the unique wine regions in the Northwest with syndicated wine writer Andy Perdue. Location: Tolovana Inn (Warren/Grace Haven Room, 3400 S.Hemlock). Price: $40 (advance purchase recommended).

It’s the 28th Annual. Each November Cannon Beach’s art community gathers to collectively celebrate diverse talents during this popular festival of the arts.

Galleries, shops, hotels and restaurants host a variety of writers, singers, composers, painters, sculptors and more. The unique coastal beauty of this region has inspired creativity for many decades, making Cannon Beach one of The Best Art Towns in America.

Transform your coastal experience into a festival of creativity filled with music, theater, poetry and art.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Art in Action | 7-10pm

Several professional artists will demonstrate their techniques and create works of art available for purchase during the evening banquet and silent auction. Featured artists include Janis Ellison, Heather Soderberg, Rob Hooper, Jeffrey Hull, Blue Bond, Christopher Mathie and Hazel Schlesinger. Music and performance art will be provided. The silent auction during the evening will offer attendees the opportunity to bid on unique Cannon Beach experiences, travel packages and other items. Featured auction items will also include umbrellas, hand painted by talented local artists. Light fare and wine will be served.

Cost: $55 | Location: Surfsand Ballroom

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Dancing in the Rain Fashion Show | 10:30-11:45am

The Coaster Theatre will host the free runway show, new to the festival this year. The show will be filled with stormy weather fashions from several local apparel stores and galleries. It will also showcase the hand painted umbrellas from Friday’s Art in Action event.

The Spotlight Concert will showcase journeyman blues artist Lloyd Jones who has forged a 30-year career, reaping numerous awards in the Northwest for his performances and recordings. He was named to the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2007 and has appeared on stage with blues greats such as Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, B.B. King, Charlie Musselwhite, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal and Etta James.

Cost: $35 | Location: Coaster Theatre Playhouse

Art in Action artists:

Jeffrey Hull

Hazel Schlesinger: Northwest By Northwest Gallery

Rob Hooper: DragonFire Gallery

Blue Bond

Christopher Mathie: White Bird Gallery

Heather Soderberg: Primary Elements Gallery

Janis Ellison: Haystack Gallery

Umbrellas that will be featured in the Dancing in the Rain Runway Fashion Show on Saturday are being painted by:

Nancy Norman: DragonFire Gallery

Marianne Post: Primary Elements

Bonny Gorsuch: Cannon Beach Gallery

Krista Guenther: Coaster Theatre

Sr. Art Class, Seaside High School

These will be auctioned off Friday night during Art in Action, but the buyers will be asked to pick them up on Saturday.

Amy is a prolific artist and illustrator living in Portland, Oregon. She is forever researching and exploring the animal kingdom and the landscapes they thrive in and upon, observing and reinterpreting what she sees through painting. Colors and shapes derived by nature have always intrigued her, and to this day, she is still searching for that perfect oval, that perfect orange-yellow and grassy green

Eva Funderburgh “Triumph”

Eva Funderburgh

Eva is a sculptor living in Seattle, Washington. While her work ranges from clay to bronze to installation work, the movement and emotional content of her work stand out, regardless of medium. Eva’s work deals with the overlap of humanity and the natural world. She uses her emotive animal forms to examine human motives and emotions. Storytelling and the idea of myth plays a very large role in her work, but equally so the notion of biology.

David Rice “Warbler”

David Rice

Much of David’s work focuses on the themes of nature and its personifying characteristics. Growing up in the mountains of Colorado, he has a special connection with the outdoors. He uses the natural landscape and its inhabitants as his primary subject matter. Melding together an organic style with graphic overlays, his style combines a mixture of the natural world with a geometric presence. The combination of the organic with the human engineered. This speaks to how instead of only a natural world existing, or one that is manmade, the two can coexist harmoniously if the dominant party yields to this cohesive existence. A balance is needed for both parties to survive.

Kelly Vivanco “Red Umbrella”

Kelly Vivanco

Currently living in her native California, Kelly has been painting and drawing since childhood and holds a BFA with honors from LCAD. Working in many mediums, Kelly enjoys setting whimsy to work upon natural enigmas and pulls inspiration from the natural and imagined world, vintage photographs, literature, and the idiosyncrasies of dreams.

Frank Gonzales “Debate”

Frank Gonzales

Frank’s incredible artwork places him at the forefront of the Young American Realist movement. His refined, yet bold and inventive reinterpretations of classic subjects can be viewed many ways. Taking references from various sources to create his own imagery, his paintings become a play between artificiality and realism. His compositions reflect the spontaneity of starting with a background color or single image, where that becomes a jumping off point for the painting.

David does every bit of the work himself in creating his limited edition bronze sculptures in his Halfway, Oregon backyard studio and foundry. His subject matter comes from his simple, rural life style and is honest, deep, and often a bit quirky. He says “Growing up living and working among cattle ranchers, art was not really the kind of thing that one should take too seriously. So, initially, I tried to focus my creative energy on functional objects, such that I would be considered useful. But time would inevitably lead me to make things that had no purpose whatsoever.”

Cary Henrie “Light Path”

Cary Henrie

Cary must have been born with an inherent connection to the American West, and it permeates his artwork. Born in Utah, 1961, he later moved to New York to study art at Pratt University. After painting for ten years in the city, he set out on his westward pilgrimage, landing in Bountiful, Utah and began capturing the beauty of his surroundings on canvas. He paints natural elements and atmosphere, hinting at windswept hills, trees, clouds and vistas. He tries to create a spiritual glow, aura and softness contrasted with raw and broken forms. Textures are burnished, toned and tinted which evoke ancient frescoes, ruins and even aged sandstone elements. Geometric lines contrast soft forms and focus movement and light. The result of my technique is unique as your eye blends all the shifting layers into a pleasing whole.

Jim Eppler “Mourning Doves II”

Jim Eppler

Jim brings the power, beauty, harshness and magnetic attraction of nature to both his paintings and bronzes. He creates from the experience of his lifelong enchantment with wildlife and his innate gift for the use of color and form. A seasoned artist who readily admits a romance with “the play of light and shadow, the way paint builds on canvas,” he is equally captivated by gestures and textures that lend themselves to the three-dimensional aspect of bronze. Bringing his skill as a colorist to his sculpture, Eppler hand-finishes each bronze in his limited editions.

Robert Rogers “Spirit Dreamer”

Robert Rogers

Robert is a native Texan whose work has been inspired by Native American art, Oriental art, and European art – along with 40 years of studies in scouting and Indian Lore. He studied at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and has been greatly influenced by his visits to the great art Meccas of Europe and especially by the art of Gustave Klimt. For more than 27 years, Robert has created fine jewelry as an art and as an expression of love for the craft. His work reflects the full expression of archetypes in Native American culture as depicted in petroglyphs and pictographs in ancient North American sites, blended with mystical spiritual symbols, Braille and other icons.

Carol Gold “Meditation II”

Carol Gold

Carol grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts and studied art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Boston University School of Fine Arts, MA; and the Museum School in Boston. Before she embarked on a sculpture career, however, she spent 14 years raising her family. In 1977 she resumed her art career in earnest, enrolling at the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA, to study bronze casting. Encouraged by her results with the medium, she built her own foundry in Northern California and has been operating it ever since. She shapes her figures and animals from wax instead of clay because she likes the way it can be manipulated to convey emotion and mood. “Wax enables me to sketch-in my figures rapidly,” she says. “It has a lightness to it that I like.” Her work is characterized by rich patinas in colors that range from warm tones of gold and copper to various shades of turquoise.

Joshua Tobey “Lion Cubs – Apache, Cheyenne, Comanche”

Joshua Tobey

The child of artists, Joshua grew up in a household where nature was as much a part of life as art…in fact so much so that perhaps one would not exist without the other. While in college in Colorado, he explored the mountains and rivers and finally decided to become a bronze sculptor. Today his subject matter is a combination of figurative studies combined with wildlife. He says it is because as apart as man is from nature, it is only in nature that he feels as if he is part of something bigger than himself.

The gallery’s 29th Annual Miniatures Show, “Raining Cats and Dogs,” will be showing work by Paul Miller as a featured artist. His quirky carved wooden dogs will populate the space, between the selected pieces from this juried show. The show will also include a display of Paul’s etchings.

Inspiration is a powerful and guiding force in the creative process. Shaped by experiences both interior and global, practical and esoteric, it is fluid and changing in its influence on the artist. For this show, the work of each DragonFire artist will show how inspiration is shaping their work today.

Haystack Gallery will be celebrating 38 years, featuring all of the gallery’s artists.

Sally O’Neill “Morning Garden”

Sally O’Neill

Sally O’Neill brings life to her impressionistic and colorful landscapes. Sally loves the effects of light and color and uses her oils to depict of world of beauty.

Jeni Lee “Tidal”

Jeni Lee

Jeni Lee will be demonstrating her unique style and techniques. Known for her atmospheric paintings of the Northwest landscape, her pieces are created with layers of paint, rain and collected recycled rainwater.

Janis Ellison “Turquoise Waters”

Janis Ellison

Janis Ellison has won numerous awards for her pastel images. Her love and nature and the outdoors is a natural companion to her passion for painting plein-air.

Jim’s life-forming fascination with glass began as a five-year experiment. Today, he has pieces in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries. And during Plein Air & More you’ll be able to see the first examples of his newest direction. Multiple firings of cast and fused glass will play with other materials, including wood and possibly clay. The idea is to produce work that evokes light and frozen motion. Over the next decade he expects Icefire’s sculpture to express ideas relating to transference, rhythmic and incremental repetition, bridging concepts and coherent light.

Suzanne Kindland “Harvest Vase”

Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne’s journey into the world of glass began with a dream where she was suspended in a pillar of fire. Turning in the flames she found herself dancing. That dancing continues as she continues to learn the ways of glass, creating with it as her partner and bringing forth objects reminiscent more of water than fire: cool, smooth forms that reflect light as a pond does, sculptures that bend the light as a ripple does, calm creations that transmit light like the stillest pool.

Jeffrey began his painting career over 40 years ago as a resident of Cannon Beach. Though primarily self-taught, he did study under three Northwest Watercolorists in the early 70’s. Known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, Jeffrey controls the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings. Recently Jeff also returned to painting in oil as well. He is rarely found far from the ocean’s edge, the source of his inspiration. His deep love for the area is clearly seen in his original paintings and prints.

Contemporary surreal artist David Jonathan Marshall is well known for his imaginative and daring ideas put to canvas. In describing his own unique painting style, David reveals his desire to paint scenes the viewer has never seen before. Sungjects range from Cityscapes, fruitscapes, pear shapes, Modern landscapes, Tree Marvels… and most recently a “Bicycle Series” and “Architectural Series.”

Sarah Goodnough “Stepping into Greatness”

Sarah Goodnough

Sarah’s work celebrates life. Her artistic style is expressive, using vibrant color, strong composition, and layered texture. She paints abstract viewscapes, pulling real life scenes into redefined realities of wonder and brilliance, creating in a variety of mediums; painting in oils, acrylics and watercolor. She also works with pastels, blockprints, mosaics and photography. By playing with composition and texture, she produces vibrant and unique work that is sensitive to mood and emotion.

Georgia’s bronze sculptures define many NW public spaces, including “Rachel the Pike Place Pig” in Seattle’s Pike Place Market and 25 sculptures surrounding Pioneer Courthouse in downtown Portland. Gerber won the 2010 Cannon Beach public choice award for Sculpture Without Walls with her “Tufted Puffins”. She typically works on two to three public installation commissions at one time using the traditional lost wax casting technique.

Hazel Schlesinger “Wine View”

Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

Skyscapes & Landscapes in oil reflect the artists most memorable and moving experiences with nature. Jeff paints the splendor of our natural world in the Northwest in pursuit of the ethereal and atmospheric light our region is known for.

Ivan McLean

Ivan McLean

He is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. His work is also well known in California where he has just installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from 10 sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

Carlos Acevedo “River Stix”

Carlos Acevedo

A contemporary bronze sculptor, Acevedo has worked with the premiere foundries in the Northwest honing his foundry skills. His patina knowledge allows the artist to express his passion and vision for the medium defining his own voice in the medium.

Heather’s father was a foundry worker who encouraged and supported her desire to sculpt. Drawing national attention as a child prodigy, her story was featured by Paul Harvey, People Magazine, National Geographic World, and “That’s Incredible.” In 2009 she bought the foundry she worked in and moved it to the heart of the Columbia River Gorge. Her “Sacagawea, Pompi, and Seaman” commissioned by the Port of Cascade Locks, has gained regional and worldwide attention.

Rip Caswell “A Sense of Curiosity”

Rip Caswell

Rip is recognized as one of America’s major bronze sculptors. His artworks can be found in public spaces, commercial developments and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. His ability to capture emotion and tell stories through his sculpture is his most noted talent. His commitment to provide historical accuracy through in-depth study and research is evident in his finished projects. Through his attention to detail and artistic skill Caswell has gained professional recognition through collaborations with skilled architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers and other artists. Rip’s flexibility as a sculptor and his capacity to create work that embodies the theme of a specific site has been proven through the completion of many highly visible large-scale installations.

Sidonie Caron “A Natural Bridge”

Sidonie Caron

Berlin born, London raised Sidonie describes herself as an eclectic painter, responding to life’s influences, her travels and her environment by making work that reflects all this. Materials and paint have always interested her and her curiosity has impelled her not only to try new techniques but also to tackle new subject matter. Sometimes her experimentation has been triggered by commissions, both public and private, which encourage her to continue with a theme. At other times a prolonged investment in a particular theme has been the impetus to then paint something completely different.

John Ebner “Cannon Beach”

John Ebner

John says, “Creating art is my entry into a worl unknown to most left-brained people. It enriches our experiences in a way not comprehended by most non artists.” It is his mission to communicate through art, his feelings about his surroundings. They can be reflected with soft muted colors, vibrant hard edged patterns, bright colors, or bold shapes. It is the combination that makes it exciting.

Steve Gevurtz “The Arrival”

Steve Gevurtz

With each of his sculptures, Steve tries to capture a subtle understanding yet basic truth about people. Hidden behind the obvious and sometimes lost in the “pose” is something much more honest and powerful. Something best communicated by the position of a hand, the tilt of a head, or the strain of a muscle. He is captivated by the challenge of finding the strongest, yet possibly not the most obvious, way to tell a very human story. Many of his pieces are about the irony and contrast which are a part of us all. Strong, yet vulnerable; present, yet far away in thought; balanced, yet precariously fragile. These contrasts are like a thread of understanding which he seeks to weave into each sculpture.

Christopher has been represented by galleries from New York to Washington State, and has developed a signature style with emphasis on deconstructing images to their most important lines and organic forms. He strives to capture energetic movement, intense emotion and suggestive shapes essential to communicate his ideas in paint.